Screen Vt100/ansi Terminal Emulator Cheat Sheet Default Keyboard Shortcuts printable pdf download

Screen VT100/ANSI Terminal Emulator Cheat Sheet

Default Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut

Command

Description

C-a ’

select

Prompt for a window name or number to switch to.

C-a ”

windowlist -b

Present a list of all windows for selection.

C-a 0. . . 9

select 0. . . select 9

Switch to window number 0. . . 9.

C-a -

select -

Switch to the blank window.

C-a [TAB]

focus

Switch the input focus to the next region.

C-a C-a

other

Toggle to the window displayed previously.

C-a a

meta

Send the command character (C-a) to window.

C-a A

title

Allow the user to enter a name for the current window.

C-a b

break

Send a break to window.

C-a C-b

C-a B

pow break

Reopen the terminal line and send a break.

C-a c

screen

Create a new window with a shell and switch to that window.

C-a C-c

C-a C

clear

Clear the screen.

C-a d

detach

Detach screen from this terminal.

C-a C-d

C-a D D

pow detach

Detach and logout.

C-a f

ﬂow

Toggle ﬂow on, oﬀ or auto.

C-a C-f

C-a F

ﬁt

Resize the window to the current region size.

C-a C-g

vbell

Toggles screen’s visual bell mode.

C-a h

hardcopy

Write a hardcopy of the current window to the ﬁle ”hardcopy.n”.

C-a H

log

Begins/ends logging of the current window to the ﬁle ”screen-

log.n”.

C-a i

info

Show info about this window.

C-a C-i

C-a k

kill

Destroy current window.

C-a C-k

C-a l

redisplay

Fully refresh current window.

C-a C-l

C-a L

Toggle this windows login slot. Available only if screen is conﬁg-

ured to update the utmp database.

C-a m

lastmsg

Repeat the last message displayed in the message line.

C-a C-m

C-a M

monitor

Toggles monitoring of the current window.

C-a [space]

Switch to the next window.

C-a n

C-a C-n

C-a N

number

Show the number (and title) of the current window.

C-a [back-space]

C-a h

Switch to the previous window (opposite of C-a n).

C-a p

C-a C-p

c 2007 Peteris Krumins (peter@catonmat.net)

- good coders code, great reuse

Screen Vt100/ansi Terminal Emulator Cheat Sheet Default Keyboard Shortcuts

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