How to disable input translation for some keys in GNU Screen

gnu-screenvim

I have Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right bound for vim, and would like to be able to use these shortcuts when vim runs inside screen.

However, because of Screen's input translation my key presses are mangled and vim does the wrong thing.

Trying to disable the key bindings with bindkey kr or bindkey -k kr while under screen does not work.

How do I keep my vim shortcuts while running it under screen?

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You need to set the $TERM variable to something that supports those keys. By default screen sets it to 'screen'. I have found setting it to 'xterm' does the trick. To achieve this you have two options.

Start screen like this: screen -T xterm, or put the following in your .screenrc.

term    xterm

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I only have input on your question #3.

As of emacs 23, emacs has a daemon mode which for me has obviated the need to run emacs inside screen. On my first login after a boot, I start emacs --daemon in a terminal. This starts emacs in the background. Then, whenever I need to use emacs, I either run emacsclient -nc to get an X window to my emacs session, or emacsclient -t to get a terminal session.

Multiple clients can coexist happily. I routinely run an X client on my workstation screen at work, an X client through ssh login from home, and a terminal client on my phone. All talking to the same emacs process, with all my buffers and other state intact. And should my ssh connection on my phone die, I can just continue where I left off after logging in again.

I don't know enough about keybindings in screen to help you with your first two questions.

Binding caps lock key to another unique key

I guess you could also map it to F13 on OS X (using PCKeyboardHack). If you for example want F13 to focus the location bar in Chrome, you can add this to private.xml in KeyRemap4MacBook:

<item>
<name>test</name>
<identifier>private.test</identifier>
<only>GOOGLE_CHROME</only>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F13, ModifierFlag::NONE, KeyCode::L, ModifierFlag::COMMAND_L</autogen>
</item>

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