Today I decided to rewrite some of my config files. I started with ~/.screenrc. It’s amazing the cool things you can do in that file 
Here are some of the options I use. One of them is rather useful : replacing the main screen key : instead of ‘ctrl-A’, I changed it to ‘ctrl-O’. That’s because ‘ctrl-A’ is binded in many applications (emacs, *sh, other editors, links…), and it clashes a lot with the badly chosen default screen key ‘ctrl-A’.
The other nifty option sets the caption of the bottom line : it displays all the windows with their number and title, the current one being highlighted in white on blue. And some status information are padded to the right of the screen.
# ~/.screenrc
# use visual bell
vbell on
# replace ctrl-A by ctrl-O
escape ^Oo
# set a big scrolling buffer
defscrollback 5000
# Set the caption on the bottom line
caption always "%{= kw}%-w%{= BW}%n %t%{-}%+w %-= @%H - %LD %d %LM - %c"
Nice tip. Perhaps you could submit it to the GWN for its tips and tricks section?
Wow, very useful the caption configuration, thank you.
@n-s – lördag 30 september – 0:27
As you can (perhaps) see, my date shows up wrong. It should be ‘L
it’s probably because you have utf8 setup but your terminal doesn’t understand utf8
Most likely.
No clues on how I make gnome-terminal run with utf8?
I googled for “screenrc”. What I wanted to do is change the escape sequence (although C-o also isn’t good, because it’s open-line in emacs) and increase the size of the scrollback buffer. In addition to those you also have the caption which, although I hadn’t imagined it, sounds like a great idea. You rock