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A friend suggested remapping the Screen command key to ` (backquote), and it changed my life. Maybe it's because I grew up using Esc key combos a lot (terminals with broken/missing meta keys), but it feels natural to treat it like another modifier key there on the left edge of the keyboard.

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I did that as well, and it was Great and Good and obviously the Right Thing — right up until I pasted in a some shell code which used `` instead of $(). Never again.

These days I use C-z for tmux. It works, and C-z z is easy enough to type when I want to put something in the background.

I'm a committed (interpret that as you like) tcsh user, so yeah, that keybinding gets in the way. On the flip side, it's gotten me out of the habit of blindly copying/pasting shell code, which is a security win, right? ;)

I'm going to interpret that as "committed to an institution" :) Tcsh makes my brain hurt.

I just switched from C-z to C-q and couldn't be happier. C-z was fine, but I realized it was a really unergonomic stretch. With caps lock as ctrl, C-q is only a slight movement of my ring finger.

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