The one thing that annoys me when I use screen is that I can’t scroll up after a long output has printed. To log outputs, add the following near the top (required!) of your screenrc file ($HOME/.screenrc): # auto-log http://www.cmdln.org/2007/07/20/automatic-session-logging-and-monitoring-with-gnu-screen-for-the-paranoid/ ## search for “STRING ESCAPES” in the manpage # logfile /tmp/screen_%Y-%m-%d-%c:%s_%n.log ## not using above read more
I [use](http://blog.nguyenvq.com/tag/screen/) [screen](http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/) on a daily basis. I recently discovered [byobu](https://launchpad.net/byobu), an enhanced add-on for screen that makes it even more customizable. A screencast can be found [here](http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2011/05/byobu-video-from-uds-o-lightning-talks.html). After reading some descriptions of `byobu` [here](http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/byobu-a-shortcut-to-a-prettier-screen/) and [here](http://linuxaria.com/howto/screen-byobu), I re-discovered screen’s ability to split screens. I’ll probably begin to use this feature. Not sure if I’ll read more
I’ve been using [elscreen](http://www.morishima.net/~naoto/software/elscreen/) for [screen](http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/)-like features in emacs the last couple of years. However, I have a few complaints. Elscreen has issues when used with `emacsclient -c`: a new frame might not be created from the `-c` argument, which messes up my current screen in emacs, and the “Opening Server Files Always in a read more
Since Canonical decided to ship Ubuntu with [Unity](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity) as opposed to [GNOME](http://www.gnome.org/) as the default desktop in their [next](http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/10/shuttleworth-unity-shell-will-be-default-desktop-in-ubuntu-1104.ars) release, I decided to take a look at [StumpWM](http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/) again. Although I like keyboard driven apps like [emacs](http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/), [conkeror](http://conkeror.org), and [screen](http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/), GNOME with [Tracker](http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/) + [deskbar-applet](http://projects.gnome.org/deskbar-applet/) (similar to Mac OS X’s Spotlight) has been sufficient; I read more
Dear list, I brought up [this](https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/ess-help/2009-June/005388.html) issue before but a good solution never arised: being able to use screen on a remote server (so if something goes wrong on my side I can always resume that R session) inside of emacs in order to utilize ESS. The closest [thing](http://blog.nguyenvq.com/2009/06/01/run-screen-in-emacs-with-ansi-term-combine-this-with-emacs-ess-remote-r/) I found to a good work read more
This is actually an update to this post, but since I discovered a few more things, I’ll write a new post. To run screen within a shell buffer in emacs, I tried M-x shell and fired up screen (ditto with M-x term). It gave me this error: Clear screen capability required. I found the solution read more
