Not sure if you are aware of this but the bind-key here sets it up so that pressing ` twice sends the backtick through: set-option -g prefix ` bind-key

Not sure if you are aware of this but the bind-key here sets it up so that pressing ` twice sends the backtick through: set-option -g prefix ` bind-key ` send-prefix I don't find it's too much of a pain to press twice when in markdown.