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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.
I can't recommend Pragmatic Bookshelf's book on tmux enough: http://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux It's got the whole thing covered end-to-end if you ever wanted to get around learning it.
Author of that book here. Thank you for the kind words.
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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.
Most people I know use it to go to the beginning of a line in programs that use readline, which includes the shell as well as most programming language interpreters.
Of course, when I started developing on a Macbook, screen rapidly became problematic as there was no Home key and I started using Ctrl-A. For the moment, I'm developing locally so I don't need screen or tmux, but I'm working on off-loading to a VM and I'll be using tmux there for the purposes of maintaining my own sanity.
I can't recommend Pragmatic Bookshelf's book on tmux enough: http://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux It's got the whole thing covered end-to-end if you ever wanted to get around learning it.
Author of that book here. Thank you for the kind words.
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.
I did not switch yet. I use screen often, and each time I checked the diff with tmux it seemed to be the same thing with slightly different defaults.
A friend of mine uses OS X -- and there tmux comes more to it's right as there's no (Free) way to get sane (for biased values of sane) window management under OS X.
[edit: It might be worth noting, that after running into a lot of problems with unicode input and urxvt, I switched to sakura[1] for my terminal -- and it's basically a lighter gnome terminal that's easy to set up without any chrome. Under debian I bind that to my x-terminal-emulator alternative, and I can ctrl-enter to open a new terminal via xmonad (xmonad needs a short config to use x-terminal-emulator though).
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How is p a weird binding? It's a pneumonic for "previous" and works the same as it does in gnu screen, which is tux's "competitor."
> It's a pneumonic for "previous" I'm guessing this is autocorrect, but an autocorrect that knows 'pneumonic' (the Firefox spell-checker doesn't!) but not 'mnemonic' seems even less likely than a person who knows the first word but not the second. Anyway, 'previous' is perhaps less likely to spring to mind than 'back' or 'reverse' or even 'last', each of which would have different mnemonics. ('Last' has a particularl…