My screenrc. liberally infuenced by _why's.

.screenrc

escape "^Ll"
setenv LC_CTYPE en_US.UTF-8
defutf8 on

autodetach            on
crlf                  off
deflogin              off
hardcopy_append       on

startup_message       off
vbell                 off

defscrollback         10000
silencewait           15

termcapinfo xterm*|Eterm|mlterm|rxvt 'hs:ts=\E]0;:fs=\007:ds=\E]0;screen\007'
defhstatus "$USER@ H | #  |  t"
hardstatus alwayslastline                                                                                                                          
hardstatus string '%{= kG}[ %{G}%H %{g}][%= %{= kw}%?%-Lw%?%{r}(%{W}%n*%f%t%?(%u)%?%{r})%{w}%?%+Lw%?%?%= %{g}][%{dy} %m/%d %{W}%c %{g}]'

activity "%c activity -> %n%f %t"
bell "%c bell -> %n%f %t^G"
vbell_msg " *beep* "

bind ~ activity       "%c activity -> %n%f %t"
bind * activity       "%c activity -> %n%f %t"
bind b eval "writebuf" "exec sh -c 'pbcopy < /tmp/screen-exchange'"

# for launching some of the stuff i use most
bind V screen -t 'vim' 0 vim
bind P screen -t 'psql' 0 psql -d jamlab -U pgsql
bind C screen -t 'console' 0 ./script/console
bind m screen -t 'server' 0 ./script/server
bind R screen -t 'irb' 0 irb

shell                 zsh