Bug#665662: screen: Add C-a c to help screen

March 24th, 2012 - 09:20 pm ET by Alois Mahdal | Report spam
Package: screen
Version: 4.0.3-14
Severity: wishlist

First thing I do when I start screen is `C-a S` to split. The second thing I need to do is to open shell in the new window - `C-a c`.

I use screen only occasionally and each time, I can't remember this `c`. (I actually don't remember even the `C-a S`, I have it in my .screenrc :-).) So I do `C-a ?` and stare like fifteen minutes saying to myself "come on, blind man, such a basic thing must be there, you're just not seeing it", but that never helps because it's *not there*. Finally I somehow magically remember but to be honest, it's a PITA.

I suggest adding this `C-a c` to `C-a ?` help screen, at least for old blind & forgetful people like me.


Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages screen depends on:
ii dpkg 1.16.1.2
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-8
ii libc6 2.13-27
ii libncursesw5 5.9-4
ii libpam0g 1.1.3-7

screen recommends no packages.

screen suggests no packages.




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#1 Axel Beckert
March 25th, 2012 - 07:00 am ET | Report spam
tag 665662 + confirmed upstream
severity minor
kthxbye

Hi Alois,

Alois Mahdal wrote:
Package: screen
Version: 4.0.3-14
Severity: wishlist

First thing I do when I start screen is `C-a S` to split. The second
thing I need to do is to open shell in the new window - `C-a c`.

I use screen only occasionally and each time, I can't remember this
`c`. (I actually don't remember even the `C-a S`, I have it in my
.screenrc :-).) So I do `C-a ?` and stare like fifteen minutes
saying to myself "come on, blind man, such a basic thing must be
there, you're just not seeing it", but that never helps because it's
*not there*.



Indeed, never noticed before. I'll pass this to upstream as this list
is generated and not hardcoded somewhere where it would be easy to
patch as a quick measure.

Finally I somehow magically remember but to be honest, it's a PITA.



In think the "c" is for "create (new shell)" or so.

I suggest adding this `C-a c` to `C-a ?` help screen, at least for
old blind & forgetful people like me.



It definitely should be there, so I'm raising the severity from
wishlist to minor. Thanks for reporting.

Regards, Axel
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