petrichor on the breeze: linux: my ~/.screenrc file

Saturday, July 24, 2010

linux: my ~/.screenrc file

This is the .screenrc file that has evolved as my current favorite over time - both for cygwin and native linux shells.

# the default shell when creating a new screen window
# ~/.bashrc is invoked whenever creating a new screen window
# so all my bash aliases are available from within screen too
shell -${SHELL}


# The shelltitle specified is an auto-title that would expect the prompt and the typed command to look something like the following:
#  $ fortune
# (it looks after the '$ ' for the command name). The window status would show the name "fortune" while the command was running, and revert to "bash" upon completion.
shelltitle "$ |bash"


#avoid startup message
startup_message off


hardstatus alwayslastline


#hardstatus string '%{= mK}%-Lw%{= KW}%50>%n%f* %t%{= mK}%+Lw%< %{= kG}%-=%D %d %M %Y %c:%s%{-}'
hardstatus string '%{= kG}[ %{G}%H %{g}][%= %{= kw}%?%-Lw%?%{r}(%{W}%n*%f%t%?(%u)%?%{r})%{w}%?%+Lw%?%?%= %{g}][%{B} %d/%m %{W}%c %{g}]'


# Use the function keys to immediately switch to corresponding windows
# (instead of having to press ^a0, ^a1 etc - which also still work, btw)
bindkey -k k1 select 1
bindkey -k k2 select 2
bindkey -k k3 select 3
bindkey -k k4 select 4
bindkey -k k5 select 5
bindkey -k k6 select 6
bindkey -k k7 select 7
bindkey -k k8 select 8
bindkey -k k9 select 9
bindkey -k k; select 10
bindkey -k F1 select 11
bindkey -k F2 select 12



# go to next/previous window using ctrl+ right and left arrows
# this interferes with word-back and word-ahead on ubuntu, hence disabled:
# bindkey ^[[1;5D prev
# bindkey ^[[1;5C next
# set the scrollback buffer to hold the last 5000 lines
defscrollback 5000

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