I have just started developing in Unix environment and playing with screens and emacs. My question might be preliminary but am unable to find an answer online. I am able to create new windows in my screen ; however I am unable annotate them. I know the command in Ctrl+a A; but how does one execute this on the keyboard? Sorry if this questions seems silly; but is there way I can combine the Ctrl+a combination into a custom command?
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On the keyboard you can just type `C-a` `A`, but maybe you want to know how to do that on the command line with a Unix command? – Alfe Jul 09 '13 at 15:35
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Yes. Currently I m able to create and detach, but not able to annotate or detach-logout from a window. Any help? – Namrata Kannan Jul 09 '13 at 15:39
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Did you see my answer below? – Alfe Jul 09 '13 at 15:43
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Have you tried
screen -X title bla
yet?
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Thank you! It works; so to name each window you need to navigate to it and name it? – Namrata Kannan Jul 09 '13 at 15:47
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manpage of `screen` says that you can use option `-p` to preselect a window (given by name or number). So you can use sth like `screen -X -p 0 title null` to set the name of the window with number 0 to 'null'. – Alfe Jul 09 '13 at 20:54