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` cannot be used since in terminal C + ` or C + SPC or C + @ translates into same thing(only allowed characters are @ [ \ ] ^ and _ ). I personally prefer using \

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Oh, I'm using just ` , not C-`. It's like hitting ESC in vi. (I also noticed that space and shift-space are indistinguishable, which is a bit annoying because in Emacs I use S-spc for languages with lots_of_soft_spacing or-several-words-joined-with-dashes.)

Readers - I found the .screenrc change for this not-entirely-obvious. You need to say escape ``

whereas you'd have thought it would be just escape `

The second character doesn't have to be another ` - that option controls what you type for an unescaped version of your meta key. I use

  escape `~

and reserve `` for switching to the most recently used window. (It looks like I didn't need to specify that explicitly.)

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