The enlightened tmux perspective is that you should always be using the keyboard to navigate between panes because it’s better and there’s no reason to use your mouse anymore, and that selecting text just sucks but you can always C-b+! to break a pane into a new window and then select it as normal.
I try to minimize how much I type, because of wrist/hand issues, and I want to move my hands in as many different ways as possible. Using the track pad with my thumbs or fingers to move between windows works very well for me, and isn’t something I’m looking to move away from.
I wonder if it’d be worth trying a trackpad or figuring out how to assign mouse gestures to keystroke macros. I’m exactly the opposite—I try to minimize moving my hands off the keyboard, except for designated stretches, but I’d think the same underlying approach is valid—figure out movements that feel natural and easy, and make them do precisely what you want.
Tmux only has the default prefix be C-b because it was developed inside Screen, which has C-a. But the first thing that everybody does is to map it to C-a.
The enlightened tmux perspective is that you should always be using the keyboard to navigate between panes because it’s better and there’s no reason to use your mouse anymore, and that selecting text just sucks but you can always C-b+! to break a pane into a new window and then select it as normal.
I try to minimize how much I type, because of wrist/hand issues, and I want to move my hands in as many different ways as possible. Using the track pad with my thumbs or fingers to move between windows works very well for me, and isn’t something I’m looking to move away from.
I wonder if it’d be worth trying a trackpad or figuring out how to assign mouse gestures to keystroke macros. I’m exactly the opposite—I try to minimize moving my hands off the keyboard, except for designated stretches, but I’d think the same underlying approach is valid—figure out movements that feel natural and easy, and make them do precisely what you want.
Tmux only has the default prefix be C-b because it was developed inside Screen, which has C-a. But the first thing that everybody does is to map it to C-a.
I like C-b, because C-a means “go to beginning of the current line” and I wasn’t using C-b for anything.
In screen I used to use C-^