On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote: > John Cosimano wrote: >> --- Brad Tilley [Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 02:52:10PM -0400]: --- >>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:45 PM, John Cosimano <j...@cosmicnetworks.net> >>> wrote: >>> > i seem to remember a thread here on misc@ that was meant to be a tmux >>> > guide for experienced screen users. >>> >>> One thing that screen got right is the A key. It's a lot closer to >>> Ctrl than B. >> >> *especially* if you have a proper keyboard with the ctrl key in the >> right location, ie, directly left of the `a'. >> >> just got ahold of a Sun Type 6 USB kbd and loving it. > > Funny, I always disliked CTRL-A being taken by screen, since it was > so handy to go back to the beginning of the command line in ksh. > But then, I make a lot of typing errors at the beginning of command > lines, I guess. :)
I agree. C-a always annoyed me in screen for the same reason as you bring up: positioning to the beginning of the shell command. C-b is almost as annoying in vi when i want to page up ;) ... but the C-b prefix is configurable as pointed out in the excellent faq you pointed out: > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq7.html#tmux Cheers, --patrick
