Re: tmux(1) in base

On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 08:59 -0400, Coleman Kane wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 13:35 +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
> > * Roman Divacky <rdivacky_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > > can tmux be configured to be 100% compatible with screen? if so
> > > are we going to ship with such a config on default?
> > 
> > Well, we could ship a screen-like config in /usr/share/examples, but in
> > my opinion we shouldn't enable this by default. It only makes it more
> > confusing when people switch to different operating systems that don't
> > use this config. I do think tmux's use of ^B instead of ^A by default is
> > a bit awkward...
> > 
> 
> Funny. I always considered (and still consider, but live with it)
> screen's use of ^A to be quite awkward and annoying, myself, since it
> conflicts with using ^A for jump-to-start-of-line.
> 

You can always change it. When I started at $JOB, my mentor hated that I
used screen, because he used ^A a lot to jump to start of line. I now
use ^F, which is used a lot less :)

``screen -e ^ff'' does the trick.

Tom