On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 07:22:27AM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:00:28PM -0700, patrick keshishian wrote: > > > Funny, I always disliked CTRL-A being taken by screen, since it was > > > so handy to go back to the beginning of the command line in ksh. > > > But then, I make a lot of typing errors at the beginning of command > > > lines, I guess. :) > > > > I agree. C-a always annoyed me in screen for the same reason as you > > bring up: positioning to the beginning of the shell command. C-b is > > almost as annoying in vi when i want to page up ;) ... > > Some people should really give vi-mode in ksh a try ;-)
Yes, and then ` makes a nice prefix on a sun keyboard (mirror image of Esc and easy to slap twice).

