Ctrl-A conflicts w/ traditional shell "Home" behavior
Bug #776743 reported by
Clint Byrum
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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byobu |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
byobu (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
As crazy as it may sound, many many users of unix/linux shells are very used to pressing Ctrl-A to get to the beginning of the line. Byobu just sort of sits there then maybe even does something weird like close the window when you hit Ctrl-A because it is waiting for the next keystroke as a traditional "screen" command.
Given that byobu has enabled many other ways to do what the ctrl-A keystroke does, it would make sense to have it re-assigned or off by default, and possibly display a notification when its pressed that it has been re-assigned to something else.
Changed in byobu: | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in byobu (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in byobu: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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As sad as it makes me, I'm marking this bug "confirmed".
Such users as you mention, Clint, can get to the beginning of the by either:
a) pressing the <HOME> key (one keystroke!)
b) or by hitting ctrl-a-a
c) or by modifying the escape key in byobu's configuration menu
In any case, I suppose we could improve this situation by adding a byobu-select-escape utility (along the lines of the select-editor utility) that runs the very first time you press ctrl-a.
This shouldn't be too hard to implement.