X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/wiki.git/blobdiff_plain/c9200652ae5cdf346d170471ba9bf1e15c9e7b67..b3c87a80c29e24e2619180df8fd741ee54db8b9e:/doc/zephyr.mdwn diff --git a/doc/zephyr.mdwn b/doc/zephyr.mdwn index 4df7e34..e2654ea 100644 --- a/doc/zephyr.mdwn +++ b/doc/zephyr.mdwn @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ On a Debian-based linux distro, open up a terminal and type `ssh @linerva.mit.edu`. On Windows, download a SSH client (such as -[PuTTY](http://chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html)) +[PuTTY](http://chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html); you will need to [change PuTTY’s character set](http://utf-8.scripts.mit.edu/wiki/PuTTY) to UTF-8 to prevent occasional display glitches.) and install it. Once you've opened it, type `@linerva.mit.edu` into the prompt and hit enter. @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ to create the necessary directories and make them completely hidden. By default, there are seven colors you may use in the terminal: red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, and white. In order to use color in Zephyr, you can use the following notation: `@(@color(red)This is -some red text))` +some red text)` Colors may vary from machine to machine, as different terminal profiles may have different shades of the seven colors. @@ -298,7 +298,9 @@ different computer and want to check your zephyrs - how do you do this? These problems can be solved with the magic of screen. A more detailed and extensive explanation of this can be found at -[http://web.mit.edu/kchen/arch/common/bin/owl-screen.txt](http://web.mit.edu/kchen/arch/common/bin/owl-screen.txt). +[http://web.mit.edu/kchen/arch/common/bin/owl-screen.txt](http://web.mit.edu/kchen/arch/common/bin/owl-screen.txt). Basic commands are [Ctrl-a] followed by [c] to open a new window (like a tab), [Ctrl-a][w] to see a list of open windows, and [Ctrl-a] followed by a number to go to that window. + +Do note that running `owl-screen` as apposed to just runnning `screen` and then a barnowl instance provides niceties such as reminders to renew your tickets (the process /mit/kchen/arch/i386_rhel4/bin/cont-renew-notify). Also, Barnowl will always be located on the `0` tab of an `owl-screen` instance, so [Ctrl-a][0] will always take you back to Barnowl. ### Screen