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Re: [PATCH] Document how to tell git to not launch a pager

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date
Jul 19, 2007, 19:34 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> But the *combination* of all three is just evil and stupid. And the choice 
> of ctrl-A as the default command sequence (can you even override it? Don't 
> know, don't care) is just insanity.
Yes, you can. For example, I have
  escape ^oo

in my ~/.screenrc, and the control command is C-o, and I can do a real C-o by doing C-o o.

That said, I rarely use screen, just to launch a long command at work and get the result from home later.

-- 
Matthieu
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Message 9 of 12 in “Document how to tell git to not launch a pager”
  1. Document how to tell git to not launch a pagerSteven Grimm, Jul 19, 2007
  2. martin f krafftJul 19, 2007
  3. Johannes SchindelinJul 19, 2007
  4. Julian PhillipsJul 19, 2007
  5. David KastrupJul 19, 2007
  6. Linus TorvaldsJul 19, 2007
  7. Nikolai WeibullJul 19, 2007
  8. Linus TorvaldsJul 19, 2007
  9. Matthieu MoyJul 19, 2007
  10. Thomas GlanzmannJul 19, 2007
  11. martin f krafftJul 19, 2007
  12. Brian GernhardtJul 19, 2007

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