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+ [If you just got the screen package, it pays to read the file INSTALL]
+ [This intro only describes the most common features to get you started]
+ [A full description of all features is contained in the source package]
+
+
+
+Short introduction to GNU screen.
+
+Send bugreports, fixes, enhancements, t-shirts, money, beer & pizza to
+ screen-devel@gnu.org
+
+Screen provides you with an ANSI/vt100 terminal emulator, which can multiplex
+up to 10 pseudo-terminals. On startup, it executes $SHELL in window 0.
+Then it reads $HOME/.screenrc to learn configuration, keybindings, and
+possibly open more windows.
+
+ C-a ? (help) Show all keybindings.
+
+ C-a c (screen) Create new windows.
+
+ C-a SPACE (next) Advance to next window (with wraparound).
+
+ C-a C-a (other) Toggle between the current and previously
+ displayed windows.
+
+ C-a 0 (select n) Switch to window n=0 ... 9.
+ ...
+ C-a 9
+
+ C-a w (windows) Show a list of window names in the status line.
+
+ C-a a (meta) Send a literal C-a/C-s/C-q to the
+ C-a s (xoff) process in the window.
+ C-a q (xon) For instance, emacs uses C-a and C-s.
+
+ C-a l (redisplay) Redraw this window.
+
+ C-a W (width) Toggle between 80 & 132 columns mode.
+
+ C-a L (login) Try to toggle the window's utmp-slot.
+
+ C-a z (suspend) Suspend the whole screen session.
+
+ C-a x (lockscreen) Execute /usr/bin/lock, $LOCKCMD or a
+ built-in terminal lock.
+
+ C-a H (log) Log stdout of window n to screenlog.n.
+
+ C-a C-[ (copy) Start copy mode. Move cursor with h,j,k,l.
+ Set 2 marks with SPACE or y. Abort with ESC.
+ (C-[ is ESC.) Preceeding second mark with
+ an a appends the text to the copy buffer.
+
+ C-a C-] (paste) Output copy buffer to current window's stdin.
+
+ C-a < (readbuf) Read the copy buffer from /tmp/screen-exchange.
+ C-a > (writebuf) Write the copy buffer to /tmp/screen-exchange.
+
+ C-a d (detach) Detach screen. All processes continue and may
+ spool output to their pty's, but screen
+ disconnects from your terminal.
+
+ C-a D D (pow_detach) Power detach. Disconnect like C-a d but also
+ kill the parent shell.
+
+ C-a K (kill) Kill a window and send SIGHUP to its process
+ group. Per default this would be C-a C-k,
+ but it is redefined in the demo .screenrc
+ (think of killing a whole line in emacs).
+
+ C-a : (colon) Online configuration change.
+
+See the man page or TeXinfo manual for many more keybindings and commands.
+
+screen -r [pid.tty.host|tty.host]
+ Reattach to a specific detached session. The terminal emulator
+ reconfigures according to your $TERMCAP or $TERM settings.
+ When you have multiple screens detached, you must supply the session
+ name.
+
+screen -R reattaches to a detached session or (if none) creates a new
+ session.
+
+screen -d [pid.tty.host|tty.host]
+ Detach a screen session remotely. Has the same effect as typing 'C-a d'
+ on the controlling terminal. 'screen -D' will power-detach.
+
+screen -list
+screen -ls
+screen -wipe
+ Show all available sessions and their status. Use -wipe to remove
+ DEAD sessions.
+
+ If sockets are missing, you may send a SIGCHLD to its 'SCREEN'
+ process and the process will re-establish the socket (think of
+ someone cleaning /tmp thoroughly).
+
+screen -h 200
+ Starts a new screen session and sets the number of lines in the scrollback
+ buffer to 200. The default is 100 lines.
+