Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tmux first impression

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Nuno J. Silva wrote:
> Dale<rdalek1967@gmail.com>  writes:
>
>    
>> Walter Dnes wrote:
>>      
>>> 4) I entered the line
>>>
>>> set -g prefix C-a
>>>
>>> in ~/.tmux.conf because every site on the web that reviewed it said that
>>> was the way to go.  Apparently, the developer uses {CONTROL-B} as the
>>> default hotkey to avoid colliding with {CONTROL-A} which screen uses.
>>> But everyone agrees that {CONTROL-B} is badly placed on the keyboard.
>>>        
>> I installed it too.  It seems a lot like screen to me and screen seems
>> to do what I need.  I did hit ctrl a several times tho.  lol  I was
>> wondering what would happen if you started tmux then started a screen
>> session inside it.
>>      
> Maybe tmux has something like screen, a combination to send a C-a (or
> any other prefix combination you set) to the running terminal.
>
> I'd set something else -- although C-a is easy to type (at least here,
> control in home row), it's used in some applications, like anything that
> uses readline (if in Emacs mode; it seems readline also has a vi mode)
> and Emacs itself.
>
>    

It can be changed to the same as screen.  I don't want to change it 
since I also have screen installed here as well.  I'm just so used to 
screen that I was doing it the same way in tmux.  Old habits are hard to 
break sometimes, especially use old fuddies.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)