Subj : Re: Screen or tmux?
To : Digital Man
From : Gamgee
Date : Sat May 01 2021 07:16 am
-=> Digital Man wrote to Gamgee <=-
> Yep. Tmux uses Ctrl-B as it's prefix by default, which is extremely
> awkward, but thankfully it's easily configured to Ctrl-A. ;-)
DM> Yeah, Ctrl-B doesn't work for me (being a vi/vim user) - so it's
DM> the first thing I change when using tmux (which admittedly, isn't
DM> all that often).
Hard to believe that *anyone* would actually prefer Ctrl-B... :-)
You probably already know this, but you can "permanently" define your
desired prefix key in a config file (Linux "dotfile") called .tmux.conf
My very simple config looks like this:
# remap prefix from 'C-b' to 'C-a'
unbind C-b
set-option -g prefix C-a
bind-key C-a send-prefix
# split panes using | and -
bind | split-window -h
bind - split-window -v
unbind '"'
unbind %
