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

[Hans Dieter Pearcey]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 03:34:51PM -0800, Ryan Yeske wrote:
> 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.

Given how many things either are emacs, or are one of its modes, or use
emacs-like keybindings, the default escape should never have been C-a
for screen(1) to begin with.  Keystroke clobbering is evil and should be
minimized.

hdp.