[Novalug] "screen" for simple/resumable/recoverable text windows

[Kevin Dwyer]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 05:27:11PM -0400, Doug Toppin wrote:
> The commands you would need are (^ below means control):

Screen is awesome.  Let me add to your commands:

screen -Rd   -"Reattach a session and if necessary detach or even create
              it first."

screen -x    -kibitz or "Attach to a not detached screen session. (Multi
                         display mode)."

^a^a    - switch to the previous window
^ad     - detach - better than ^az - resume with screen -Rd
^aESC   - scrollback mode
<space> - while in scrollback, marks a range to copy and copies it.
^a]     - paste

And because I use emacs/bash,
^aa     - go to the front of the line (passthrough a C-a)

Screen is most useful to me in two cases.  The first is the one you
mentioned, where the connection has a tendency (or even a chance) of
dying.  The second is when I must start a long running process (or
processes) on a machine where I have to logout when I leave.  This way I
can hop back on and resume my terminals to see what happened with the
processes, and I can do it remotely too.

-kpd