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How do people use terminal multiplexers together with vim?

Ctrl+B is so hardwired in my fingers for scrolling back one screen that there's no way I'm remapping that one in vim itself. So then you have to remap that in your terminal multiplexer, while at the same time there's a bunch of people saying never change the leader key...

Curious what vim users especially do about this?

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I'm using tmux + zoxide+ https://github.com/joshmedeski/sesh. Then on Ghostty, I have keybinds for my workflow. Cmd+k to open/switch workspace. Each workspace is just a new tmux session.

>Ctrl+B is so hardwired in my fingers for scrolling back one screen that there's no way I'm remapping that one in vim itself.

Give it a month and whatever you remapped will be "hardwired" too.

In any case, no reason to keep Ctrl-B in tmux either, you can remap that just as well.

As a vim user, I just remap C+B to C+A. It's much easier on the fingers too. Issue arises when I ssh somewhere that doesn't have the leader remapped but that's usually pretty rare when I have to vim in a tmux session on a remote host so not really an issue

I use tmux with vim and configure it to use Ctrl-a. Not for vim, but because I started with GNU screen that used this key. For the cases when I need actual Ctrl-a, tmux is configured to send it when I do “Ctrl-a a”.

The secret is to abandon vimkeys and rebind everything to normal keys like ctrl + c instead of Y...

Change the tmux leader to ctrl-space, problem fixed!

I'd recommend using Page Up and Page Down, but this seems like a much better solution.

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