Re: exec a command via remote terminal then closing that terminal

[Alan Peery <peery io com>]

Kent Borg wrote:

>  
>
> For a more general answer, but something I use less, use "screen".
>
> Look at the man page to see details of getting everything to work
> smoothly, like letting you do ctrl-A to get to beginning of line in
> emacs.  Gotta figure that out.  I haven't.
>  
^A followed by "a" works pretty nicely for me. :-)

I suppose you can probably rebind screen's ^A to another character--but 
it seems too much bother.

Alan