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		spudlyo on Nov 20, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's the one Linux command you wish you knew yea... People rebind it. I bind it to ^o. `# put this in your .screenrc escape ^Oo`

lambda on Nov 21, 2011 | [–]

I always rebind it to ^z. Since I never need to put a process in the background (I just open a new screen instead) when running screen, it never bothers me that that combo is a bit harder to type.

_mrc on Nov 20, 2011 | [–]

or if you never use toggle-input-method, maybe C-\

  escape ^\\

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