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A command in screen can either be bound to a key, invoked from a
screenrc file, or called from the colon prompt
(see Customizing Screen). As of version 3.3, all commands can be bound
to keys, although some may be less useful than others.
For a number of real life working examples of the most important
commands see the files etc/screenrc and etc/etcscreenrc
of your screen distribution.
In this manual, a command definition looks like this:
(keybindings)
This command does something, but I can’t remember what.
An argument in square brackets (‘[]’) is optional. Many commands take an argument of ‘on’ or ‘off’, which is indicated as state in the definition.