On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:12:07PM +0100, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 01:04:55PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: > > Nicholas Marriott wrote: > > > And it is surprising the amount of variation: I have seen others who use > > > `, or function keys, quite a few seem to go for C-x or C-s, and some > > > even for C-z. > > > > Using C-s sounds like asking for trouble. :) > > > > > So (and I know you didn't suggest this but some people might be > > > wondering :-), the tmux prefix key is C-b and it is staying C-b unless > > > there is a clear consensus that it should change, and what it should > > > change to. > > > > I doubt there ever will be. C-a makes a poor universal choice (despite > > screen's precedence, and my personal preference) for the start-of-line > > thing; ` may make a poor choice for people who write much Perl or shell, > > or use it with the Compose key to type grave accents (?) or whatnot. It > > seems to me that there are no good choices, only choices that vary in > > how poor they are (C-m or C-i are obviously poor choices, and > > function-keys and C-s can lead to problems that C-a and C-b won't). So > > might as well keep on doing what we've been doing: choose an arbitrary > > prefix, but refer to it generically as <prefix> wherever possible, and > > let people change it to suit their needs. > > > > > The same applies to default colours... many people want colours by > > > default and many do not, no consensus means it stays what I originally > > > chose, which is a coloured tmux by default. And the same for the status > > > line, there is no clear opinion on whether on or off is better by > > > default, so on it stays on :-). > > > > Yeah. Personally, I always liked having such a visual reminder that I'm > > "in screen/tmux"; in screen, one of the first things I tended to do in > > screen was to turn the status bar on, even if I didn't intend to use the > > information it provided. Though altering one's prompt based on STY or > > TMUX is another solution, and one that needn't take space (but I tend to > > have several windows open, so I do usually need the window-list anyway). > > Yeah, me to, although I change my prompt very slightly as well (yellow $ > instead of white). > > > > > > For the record, I use C-a for my primary tmux sessions but I leave it at > > > C-b for transient ones (eg when I start one up on a different box just > > > for a build). > > > > Do you use Home and End when you're using Emacs, then? > > No, I always just hit C-a twice inside and outside tmux.
I use emacs for at least 8 hours every day so one of the things that helps to make tmux very productive for me is that copy mode behaves a lot like emacs (at least for basic functions), so it is very fast and natural for me to use it... this is why I make such a fuss about being changing the emacs keys :-). > > > > The actual reason I originally chose C-b was because the first prototype > > > versions of tmux were written and tested inside screen, and C-b didn't > > > interfere with screen's C-a prefix. > > > > > > As an aside, you can bind multiple prefix keys, so if you wanted you > > > could bind a function key and another key as a backup. > > > > Good point. I don't believe screen allows this. > > > > > > -- > > Micah J. Cowan > > http://micah.cowan.name/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > tmux-users mailing list > tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
