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Re: My tmux setup

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Post by asdasf »

>But the years of using screen have ingrained in my muscle memory to use ctrl-a

I still don't understand how this happened to so many people. Ctrl+a is already taken, how did anyone ever use screen without immediately changing it to something that doesn't conflict with a frequently used shell shortcut?

Re: My tmux setup

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Post by daniel_solano »

asdasf wrote: post #2

>But the years of using screen have ingrained in my muscle memory to use ctrl-a I still don't understand how this happened to so many people. Ctrl+a is already taken, how did anyone ever use screen without immediately changing it to something that doesn't conflict with a frequently used shell shortcut?

Well, some of use vi bindings, and Ctrl+a isn't as commonly used there.

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Post by jzawodn »

asdasf wrote: post #2

>But the years of using screen have ingrained in my muscle memory to use ctrl-a I still don't understand how this happened to so many people. Ctrl+a is already taken, how did anyone ever use screen without immediately changing it to something that doesn't conflict with a frequently used shell shortcut?

Indeed. I've been using Ctrl-\ as my Ctrl-a in screen (and occasionally tmux). Turns out that I never use that keystroke in real life.

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Post by gbin »

For the vim lovers, this trick is quite good :

  unbind [ # free the weird binding
  set-window-option -g mode-keys vi # switch to vi bindings
  bind Escape copy-mode # ctrl-a ESC put your pane in a kind of vi normal mode
  bind-key -t vi-copy v begin-selection # start a visual select mode with v like in vim
  bind-key -t vi-copy y copy-selection # yank with y
  unbind p # free another weird binding 
  bind p paste-buffer # paste with crtl-a p

Re: My tmux setup

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Post by farresito »

tmux is like that thing that you hear about quite often, that you think it's not that useful, but that, once you try, you realize why and where its fame comes from.

I adopted tmux about a month ago and I can't really complain much. It's just awesome. If you work a lot in the terminal (I do), I would highly recommend using it.

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Post by jlgreco »

asdasf wrote: post #2

>But the years of using screen have ingrained in my muscle memory to use ctrl-a I still don't understand how this happened to so many people. Ctrl+a is already taken, how did anyone ever use screen without immediately changing it to something that doesn't conflict with a frequently used shell shortcut?

The only thing ctrl-A is used for by me besides screen (or rather, tmux after I remapped it), is incrementing a number in vim. Not really a big deal.

Re: My tmux setup

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Post by graywh »

jzawodn wrote: post #5
asdasf wrote: post #2

>But the years of using screen have ingrained in my muscle memory to use ctrl-a I still don't understand how this happened to so many people. Ctrl+a is already taken, how did anyone ever use screen without immediately changing it to something that doesn't conflict with a frequently used shell shortcut?

Indeed. I've been using Ctrl-\ as my Ctrl-a in screen (and occasionally tmux). Turns out that I never use that keystroke in real life.

I use ctrl-_. In many terminals you can generate it with ctrl + 7 and/or ctrl + ?.
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