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screen Concepts

Or, what sort of things you can do with screen and the commands that control them.

  • text exchange (bufferfile, copy, crlf, deflog, defescape, defscrollback, defslowpaste, ignorecase, log, logfile, defobuflimit, hardcopy, hardcopy_append, hardcopydir, logtstamp, obuflimit, paste, pastefont, readbuf, readreg, register, removebuf, scrollback, slowpaste, writebuf)
  • window management (next, at, blanker, blankerprg, lockscreen, deflogin, defmode, defzombie, idle, kill, login, maxwin, number, other, pow_break, redisplay, screen, select, shelltitle, verbose, windowlist, windows, zombie, defzombie)
  • region management (focus, only, remove, resize, split)
  • misc (backtick, chdir, colon, command, compacthist, console, debug, defshell, exec, detach, displays, eval, history, password, pow_detach, pow_detach_msg, quit, sessionname, setenv, setsid, shell, sleep, source, suspend, unsetenv)

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