What’s the difference between hardstatus and caption in GNU Screen

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I've started to play with GNU Screen setting.

What's the difference between hardstatus and caption in GNU Screen?

hardstatus seems to appear at the bottom on the Terminal, but
I don't even know what caption really is yet.

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For me, using PuTTY in Windows, hardstatus is displayed in the Windows window title (hstatus string), while caption is displayed at the bottom of each screen window when the screen is split (caption splitonly string) or at the bottom of any screen window whether it's split or not (caption always string).

You can find further documentation in info screen.

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Edit:

Here's what worked for me:

My ~/.bashrc sets TERM=xterm (mine happens to be TERM=xterm-256colors) overriding screen's TERM=screen
I set PuTTY > Terminal > Features > Disable Application cursor keys mode to checked
I enter tput smkx at the Bash prompt
Now Ctrl-Arrow keys jump word-by-word
For informational purposes, if I do:
tput smkx | hexdump -c
I get
0000000 033 [ ? 1 h 033 =
and
tput rmkx | hexdump -c
gives me
0000000 033 [ ? 1 l 033 >

I think there's a way to rework this into something a little better, but it's what I've got so far and it seems to work.

Original answer:

From info screen:

Each window in a `screen' session emulates a VT100 terminal, with some extra functions added. The VT100 emulator is hard-coded, no other terminal types can be emulated.

And VT100s don't have Ctrl-Arrow keycodes.

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