byobu-ctrl-a(1)                      byobu                     byobu-ctrl-a(1)

NAME
       byobu-ctrl-a - Configure Byobu's ctrl-a behavior


SYNOPSIS
       byobu-ctrl-a ['screen'|'tmux'] [key]


DESCRIPTION
       byobu-ctrl-a is an interactive program that allows a user to configure
       the behavior of the 'ctrl-a' key sequence.

       Traditional GNU screen(1) uses ctrl-a as its escape character, while
       GNU emacs(1) uses ctrl-a to move the cursor to the beginning of the
       line.  This conflict has caused unending amounts of grief among Screen,
       Byobu, and Emacs-mode users.

       Thus, this program exists to allow each user to choose the behavior of
       ctrl-a in their local environment.


       http://byobu.org


AUTHOR
       This manpage and the utility were written by Dustin Kirkland
       <kirkland@byobu.org> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others).
       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
       and the utility under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
       Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation.

       The complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in
       /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL on Debian/Ubuntu systems, or in
       /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-*/GPL on Fedora systems, or on the web at
       http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.

byobu                             10 May 2011                  byobu-ctrl-a(1)