How to use cursor keys to switch buffers in GNU screen

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Published on 2011-10-23T14:20:52Z Indexed on 2012/09/16 21:43 UTC
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I want to use cursor keys or cursor keys with a modifier like Ctrl to switch between screen buffers (e.g. C-a [arrow] or C-a C-[arrow]). So far I have tried settings like the ones below with no success.

bind     \224\115   prev
bind     \224\116   next

bindkey -d ^[[1;5D  prev
bindkey -d ^[[1;5C  next

They are either ignored or behave unexpectedly (the second one). I am also not sure how to specify the keys. To get the characters, I either used C-v to quote them in bash, or tried to look-up on the Internet (e.g. http://ascii-table.com/ansi-escape-sequences.php).

Any idea how I can achieve this key binding?

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