Escreen

Escreen is a window multiplexer for Emacs.

escreen.el

Description	Emacs window session manager
Author	Noah Friedman
Maintainer	Noah Friedman
Source	http://www.splode.com/~friedman/software/emacs-lisp/src/escreen.el

Basic setup

(require 'escreen)
(escreen-install)

Helpful keybindings

[C-\ C-b]

Escreen menu. Describes the open windows and numbers.

[C-\ p] (or M-x escreen-goto-prev-screen)

Go to previous screen.

[C-\ n] (or M-x escreen-goto-next-screen)

Go to next screen.

[C-\ <n>] (or M-x escreen-goto-screen-<n>)

Go to screen number <n>.

Common Customization

Use [C-z] as your Escreen command prefix

(define-key global-map (kbd "C-z") nil)
(setq escreen-prefix-char (kbd "C-z"))

Go back with backspace

(define-key escreen-map (kbd "<backspace>") 'escreen-goto-prev-screen)

Add the screen number to the mode line

(add-hook 'escreen-goto-screen-hook
          'escreen-enable-number-mode-if-more-than-one-screen)