Re: [RP] At long last: success with ratpoison

[Shawn Betts]

Ryan Yeske <address@hidden> writes:

> twb <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Quoth Albert Meier <address@hidden> on or about Sat, 01 Nov 2003 11:28:40 
> > +0100:
> > > square. So the magic combination for me is C-a and not C-t (The reason 
> > > being 
> > > an entry /etc/ratpoisonrc).
> > > I can only guess at why the gentoo developers put it in there: to avoid 
> > 
> > screen(1) compatibility.
> 
> Yes.  That's almost certainly why.
> 
> IIRC, I argued early on (like ratpoison 0.0.2 days or something) that
> C-a should be the default out of the box, for the same reason
> (screen(1) compat), and Shawn disagreed, and that was that :).  I
> still believe, at some level that C-a should be, or should have been
> the default, but its definitely too late now, I think.

I offer an argument against using C-a as the default because screen
uses C-a as a default. It seems a number of users use ratpoison and
screen at the same time. They boot ratpoison, open a terminal and
connect to their screen session. If rp used C-a as the default then a
default setup would make it difficult to control screen. Imagine
trying to get a C-a key in emacs inside the screen session: C-a a a.