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I'd add <prefix> w to that list, which shows an interactive list of opened windows which is very friendly to newcomers, does away with the base-index setting th

by lloeki 9y ago

I'd add <prefix> w to that list, which shows an interactive list of opened windows which is very friendly to newcomers, does away with the base-index setting that's needed to fix cognitive dissonance of tab order vs key order, and circumvents the inconvenience of having to use shift to reach for numbers on non-US layouts. > Ctrl a (a little faster to type, doesn’t conflict with vim ... but conflicts with beginning-of-line emacs-style bindings, widely in use in readline/libedit/zsh.

baby 9y ago
Exactly. I use C-z on mine
- smhenderson 9y ago
  Doesn't that mess with job control in your shell?
  - bch 9y ago
    I think I could live w having to “quote” ^Z to suspend a job, but worry I’m going to have ^Z baked-into my muscle memory and end up accidentally suspending jobs on non-tmux sessions.
    - winkywooster 9y ago
      But that's not a bad thing.. fg it back. ^z is my preference for tmux too.
      - smhenderson 9y ago
        Interesting. After I posted my comment I saw elsewhere that you can simply hit ^z twice to suspend so I guess that's not a big deal after all.
        baby 9y ago
        Yeah I just hit ^z twice to suspend now, and if I do it by mistake (which really rarely happens) I can fg.
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supergreg 9y ago
I had remapped <prefix> w to cycle to the next pane so I had no idea of the window list. Thanks for that.
sevensor 9y ago
> I'd add I'd add stuff too, but I think we need to resist the temptation. The article succeeds in presenting the absolute bare minimum you need to get started. In fact, I think the author chose his features well but used too many words to present them.
spinningarrow 9y ago
C-a seems to be quite a common prefix, but as you said, it conflicts with the beginning-of-line command. I’ve been quite happy with C-s so far; if it conflicts with something, I have no idea.
- lloeki 9y ago
  ^S is XOFF of software control flow fame. You shouldn't need to worry about it though.
- mi100hael 9y ago
  It's a common prefix because it's what gnu-screen uses by default, which is what everyone was using for 20 years before tmux came along.
- barrkel 9y ago
  C-s searches forward where C-r searches backwards, if you're used to using C-r to retrieve an earlier command via incremental search. If not otherwise configured with stty, it's frequently set up for control flow along with C-q. If you find your terminal freezes after typing C-s, C-q will unfreeze it. Disable with: stty -ixon start undef stop undef
  - spinningarrow 9y ago
    Thanks, I didn’t know that! I use the fish shell, which does history searching differently but this is useful for those few times when I’m in bash.
platinumrad 9y ago
Ctrl-j is excellent for me as a vim user. It's default behavior is to just move the cursor one line down which you can already do by pressing... j (although Ctrl-j can be used in insert mode if I recall correctly).
tym0 9y ago
Mapped mine to Ctrl-Space, no conflicts.
graywh 9y ago
I use ^_ (0x1F) which can be "typed" with Ctrl + 7 and Ctrl + / in most terminals.
orev 9y ago
As a long-time ‘screen’ user, the Ctrl-A issue is almost completely a non-issue. One can easily send a Ctrl-A to the underlying shell using Ctrl-A A. I assume ‘tmux’ has something similar. It’s also pretty rare to need the “beginning of the line” movement in a shell, when compared to the number of times one needs to control the multiplexor. Ctrl-A is also very close at hand, and the vast majority of people are using PC keyboards which also have a Home key that work just as well for movement.

by lloeki 9y ago

baby 9y ago

Exactly. I use C-z on mine

smhenderson 9y ago
Doesn't that mess with job control in your shell?
- bch 9y ago
  I think I could live w having to “quote” ^Z to suspend a job, but worry I’m going to have ^Z baked-into my muscle memory and end up accidentally suspending jobs on non-tmux sessions.
  - winkywooster 9y ago
    But that's not a bad thing.. fg it back. ^z is my preference for tmux too.
    - smhenderson 9y ago
      Interesting. After I posted my comment I saw elsewhere that you can simply hit ^z twice to suspend so I guess that's not a big deal after all.
      - baby 9y ago
        Yeah I just hit ^z twice to suspend now, and if I do it by mistake (which really rarely happens) I can fg.
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supergreg 9y ago

I had remapped <prefix> w to cycle to the next pane so I had no idea of the window list. Thanks for that.

sevensor 9y ago

> I'd add I'd add stuff too, but I think we need to resist the temptation. The article succeeds in presenting the absolute bare minimum you need to get started. In fact, I think the author chose his features well but used too many words to present them.

spinningarrow 9y ago

C-a seems to be quite a common prefix, but as you said, it conflicts with the beginning-of-line command. I’ve been quite happy with C-s so far; if it conflicts with something, I have no idea.

lloeki 9y ago
^S is XOFF of software control flow fame. You shouldn't need to worry about it though.
mi100hael 9y ago
It's a common prefix because it's what gnu-screen uses by default, which is what everyone was using for 20 years before tmux came along.
barrkel 9y ago
C-s searches forward where C-r searches backwards, if you're used to using C-r to retrieve an earlier command via incremental search. If not otherwise configured with stty, it's frequently set up for control flow along with C-q. If you find your terminal freezes after typing C-s, C-q will unfreeze it. Disable with: stty -ixon start undef stop undef
- spinningarrow 9y ago
  Thanks, I didn’t know that! I use the fish shell, which does history searching differently but this is useful for those few times when I’m in bash.

platinumrad 9y ago

Ctrl-j is excellent for me as a vim user. It's default behavior is to just move the cursor one line down which you can already do by pressing... j (although Ctrl-j can be used in insert mode if I recall correctly).

tym0 9y ago

Mapped mine to Ctrl-Space, no conflicts.

graywh 9y ago

I use ^_ (0x1F) which can be "typed" with Ctrl + 7 and Ctrl + / in most terminals.

orev 9y ago

As a long-time ‘screen’ user, the Ctrl-A issue is almost completely a non-issue. One can easily send a Ctrl-A to the underlying shell using Ctrl-A A. I assume ‘tmux’ has something similar. It’s also pretty rare to need the “beginning of the line” movement in a shell, when compared to the number of times one needs to control the multiplexor. Ctrl-A is also very close at hand, and the vast majority of people are using PC keyboards which also have a Home key that work just as well for movement.