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  1. Bug #923134
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 923134

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote : Re: [Bug 923134] Re: Some terminal shortcuts don't work within byobu-tmux

Excerpts from Serge Hallyn's message of Wed Feb 08 15:15:03 UTC 2012:
> I can't actually reproduce this. ctrl-e works just fine. ctrl-a is
> intercepted because it is the escape code, but 'ctrl-a' followed by 'a'
> does what it should (act like ctrl-a). Note you can change the escape
> code by hitting 'f9' and choosing 'change escape sequence'.
>

This does seem like a regression from the screen flavor of byobu, which
would pop up a question "do you want ctrl-A to be the escape code or
use f12?". Perhaps that was just a transitional thing, and I found it
rather offputting to be asked actually (I'd prefer that the esc code
just be f12 since f-keys are meant for terminal/application control).

Anyway, I think this just needs to be well documented. It would be
especially helpful if byobu changed something on the status line to
inform people that the escape key had been pressed.