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screen tip: How to send Ctrl a to application

Posted by hide1713 on November 9, 2008

screen is a powerful window management tool under linux

All it’s command starts with ctrl+a ,so If you want to send ctrl+a to an application (like emacs), you can type

ctrl+a a

This tip is hard to find, so I post it.

2 Responses to “screen tip: How to send Ctrl a to application”

  1. Jordi said

    Indeed, thanks!

  2. Sam said

    Thanks for the quick tip!

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