= GNU screen terminal commands cheat sheet
:author: Yuri Slobodyanyuk


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|Command
|Description

|*~/.screenrc* & */etc/screenrc*
| Commands the screen runs on start up.

|*screen -ls*
|List active screen sessions

|*screen -S <session name>*
|Create a new screen session with the name <session name>

|*screen -x*

*screen -r <session name>*

|Attach to the running session, also by its name

|*C-a d*
| Detach from the session, session keeps running. Here, and further *C* means Ctrl.

|*C-a c*
|Create new window in the session.

|*C-a C-a*
|Switch to the previous window.

|*C-a <number>*
|Switch to the window number `number`.

|*C-a n*
|Switch to the next window.

|*C-a p*
|Switch to the previous window.

|*C-a "*
|List all windows with option to highlight and enter any of them.

|*exit*
|Exit and close current window. If it was the last window in a session, exits `screen` terminating the session.

|*C-a k*
|Kill the current window forcefully (not recommended).


|*C-a A*
|Rename current window.

|*C-a S*
|Split windows display horizontally. Use *C-a c* to create a new window inside the new split.

|*C-a V*
|Split windows display vertically. Available starting screen 4.01, i.e. not available on Mac 2020 which still uses screen 4.00.

|*C-a tab*
|Jump to the next region in a split window display.

|*C-a X*
|Remove the region in focus.

|*C-a [* or *C-a <esc>*
|Enter buffer navigation mode to scroll output buffer, copy, edit and paste later. Navigation commands as per `vim` if Vim is set as editor.*<esc>* to leave the buffer mode.

|*<space>*
|Start/stop selection while in the buffer mode to select the text. All selected text is being copied to the clipboard automatically. E.g. to select/copy the whole buffer: `C-a [ gg <space> G <esc>`

|*C-a ]*
|Paste the selected text at the cursor of the terminal, or create a new window and say start Vim there and paste into it while in Insert mode.

|*C-a h*
|Screenshot as a text the currently visible terminal window and save the output to `hardcopy.<n>`, where <n> is auto-incrementing number of your screen session.











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