Screen VT100/ANSI Terminal Emulator Cheat Sheet Default Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut
C-a C-a C-a 0. . . 9 C-a C-a [TAB] C-a C-a C-a a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a A b C-b B c C-c C d C-d DD f C-f F

Command
select windowlist -b select 0. . . select 9 select focus other meta title break pow break screen clear detach pow detach ow t vbell hardcopy log info kill redisplay login lastmsg monitor next number prev

Description
Prompt for a window name or number to switch to. Present a list of all windows for selection. Switch to window number 0. . . 9. Switch to the blank window. Switch the input focus to the next region. Toggle to the window displayed previously. Send the command character (C-a) to window. Allow the user to enter a name for the current window. Send a break to window. Reopen the terminal line and send a break. Create a new window with a shell and switch to that window. Clear the screen. Detach screen from this terminal. Detach and logout. Toggle ow on, o or auto. Resize the window to the current region size. Toggles screens visual bell mode. Write a hardcopy of the current window to the le hardcopy.n. Begins/ends logging of the current window to the le screenlog.n. Show info about this window. Destroy current window. Fully refresh current window. Toggle this windows login slot. Available only if screen is congured to update the utmp database. Repeat the last message displayed in the message line. Toggles monitoring of the current window. Switch to the next window. Show the number (and title) of the current window. Switch to the previous window (opposite of C-a n).

C-a C-g C-a h C-a H C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a i C-i k C-k l C-l L m C-m M [space] n C-n N [back-space] h p C-p

c 2007 Peteris Krumins (peter@catonmat.net) http://www.catonmat.net - good coders code, great reuse

Shortcut
C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a q C-q Q r C-r s C-s S t C-t v C-v w C-w W x C-x X z C-z Z

Command
xon only wrap xo split time version digraph windows width lockscreen remove suspend reset dumptermcap help quit colon copy paste . history writebuf readbuf removebuf license silence displays

Description
Send a control-q to the current window. Delete all regions but the current one. Toggle the current windows line-wrap setting (turn the current windows automatic margins on and o). Send a control-s to the current window. Split the current region into two new ones. Show system information. Display the version and compilation date. Enter digraph. Show a list of window. Toggle 80/132 columns. Lock this terminal. Kill the current region. Suspend screen. Your system must support BSD-style job-control. Reset the virtual terminal to its power-on values. Write out a .termcap le. Show key bindings. Kill all windows and terminate screen. Enter command line mode. Enter copy/scrollback mode. Write the contents of the paste buer to the stdin queue of the current window. Copy and paste a previous (command) line. Write paste buer to a le. Reads the screen-exchange le into the paste buer. Removes the le used by C-a < and C-a >. Shows where screen comes from, where it went to and why you can use it. Start/stop monitoring the current window for inactivity. Show a listing of all currently attached displays.

C-a . C-a ? C-a C-\ C-a C-a C-a C-a C-a : [ C-[ [ESC] ]

C-a { C-a } C-a > C-a < C-a = C-a , C-a C-a *

c 2007 Peteris Krumins (peter@catonmat.net) http://www.catonmat.net - good coders code, great reuse