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bindkey

Default Keybindings

None.

Syntax

  • bindkey [-d] [-m] [-a] [[-k|-t] string [cmd args]]

Description

This command manages screen’s input translation tables. Every entry in one of the tables tells screen how to react if a certain sequence of characters is encountered. There are three tables: one that should contain actions programmed by the user, one for the default actions used for terminal emulation and one for screen’s copy mode to do cursor movement. See section Default Key Bindings for a list of default key bindings. If the -d option is given, bindkey modifies the default table; -m changes the copy mode table and with neither option the user table is selected. The argument string is the sequence of characters to which an action is bound. This can either be a fixed string or a termcap keyboard capability name (selectable with the -k option).

Some keys on a VT100 terminal can send a different string if application mode is turned on (e.g the cursor keys). Such keys have two entries in the translation table. You can select the application mode entry by specifying the -a option.

The -t option tells screen not to do inter-character timing. One cannot turn off the timing if a termcap capability is used.

cmd can be any of screen’s commands with an arbitrary number of args. If cmd is omitted the key-binding is removed from the table.

Examples

bindkey -d

Show all of the default key bindings. The application mode entries are marked with [A].

bindkey -k k1 select 1

Make the “F1” key switch to window one.

bindkey -t foo stuff barfoo

Make “foo” an abbreviation of the word “barfoo”. Timeout is disabled so that users can type slowly.

bindkey "\024" mapdefault

This key-binding makes “^T” an escape character for keybindings. If you did the above “stuff barfoo” binding, you can enter the word “foo” by typing “^Tfoo”. If you want to insert a “^T” you have to press the key twice (i.e., escape the escape binding).

bindkey -k F1 command

Make the F11 (not F1!) key an alternative screen escape (besides ^A).

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