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The problem I have with ^B is that the b is too far away from ctrl. A is much closer, which makes it a much faster one-hand press.

Yes, defaults are super important! And in my opinion one of the big shortcomings for many cli applications.

I try to keep the defaults when they make sense, and I try to make my configs add to the experience but not change it too much. So it's nice if it's there but I'm still productive on a clean system.

But ^A in tmux is one of those changes, I think ^A is so much more ergonomic (and used alot) that I have it remapped for that reason. But I still have to remember the default binding.

> open bug tickets for open source projects arguing that the defaults should be changed

I sort of feel like there should be something like a POSIX compliance standard for keybindings. But the Vim/Emacs divide is pretty big.