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I try to move with the VT100 keys here in GNU Screen:

$ screen
$ hello <left><left> ESC C ESC D

but "ESC D" deletes until the end of line and ESC C does nothing. Perhaps, I am not using right VT100 emulation. How can I test it and how can I get the ASCII codes working from commandline with Screen?

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The VT100 escape code for Left and Right are actually Escape [ (optional number) D / C respectively.

Based upon your shell, ESC D will be translated to Alt/Meta-D which for Bash (assuming you're using a default shell) will delete to end of line. ESC C will be translated as Meta/Alt-C which goes to end of line. Neither of these bindings have anything to do with VT100 codes.

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