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I know everyone remaps their prefix to ctrl-a - how do you then jump to the start of a line?

Edit: Thanks for the solutions. Will have a play. Like the sound of using ctrl-\

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You map a to send the prefix: bind-key a send-prefix

Now when you type <prefix-a> ctrl-a gets sent.

A while ago I changed my prefix to ctrl-q because of ctrl-a interfering with me being able to move to the beginning of a line. Not sure if I would go back to ctrl-a now, but this is nice to know.

Oh, amazing. Believe it or not that one silly thing has put me off investing in learning tmux.

I guess you know this, but just for some context: ctrl-a is the default prefix for GNU Screen which was the unopposed leader in terminal management for a long time, so most people are just used to it.

As for the ctrl-a shortcut, I admit I use screen/tmux for mail, jabber and text editing/programming mostly, so I do not spend that much time in the shell where that shortcut would be handy. I just didn't use that shortcut until now.

I don't - I use ctrl-s instead. Similar position so just as easy to hit, but it seems to clash with fewer important terminal keystrokes as it has been historically used for flow control in the terminal driver. Here's the relevant bit for .tmuxrc:

  unbind C-b
  set -g prefix C-s
  bind s send-prefix
  bind C-s if '! tmux last-pane' last-window

I've used screen for donkey's years now and since I'm also an emacs user, the C-a as the prefix (default for screen) was out of the question. C-] was my solution and has worked dandy so far without ever clashing with any keyboard shortcut from any application.

I've remapped my prefix to ctrl-\. I also have my capslock remapped as control. So two pinkys to hit my prefix.

I'm using ctrl+\ as a leader key for vim and alt+\ for tmux. feels comfy

I use ctrl-_ for the tmux prefix, which is often available from ctrl-7.

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