Re: can not send the actual prefix key other than ^b

2012-08-08 Thread LEVAI Daniel
On sze, aug 08, 2012 at 15:41:29 +0100, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > Are you sure you restarted tmux entirely? > > What if you do "cat" then C-b : send-prefix -2 does it show ^A? > [...] The 'cat' trick worked, I got the ^a in the terminal. OTOH Sorry, but it didn't occur to me that I had to comp

Re: can not send the actual prefix key other than ^b

2012-08-08 Thread Nicholas Marriott
Are you sure you restarted tmux entirely? What if you do "cat" then C-b : send-prefix -2 does it show ^A? On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 03:53:18PM +0200, LEVAI Daniel wrote: > On sze, aug 08, 2012 at 13:41:31 +0200, LEVAI Daniel wrote: > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > > I'm using tmux's default pref

Re: can not send the actual prefix key other than ^b

2012-08-08 Thread Tiago Resende
On Wednesday, 2012-08-08, at 15:53:18 +0200, LEVAI Daniel wrote: > With these options I get ^B by pressing CTRL+a+a or CTRL+b+b. Still > no ^A in my terminal. > > Here is my ~/.tmux.conf: Maybe you're just changing your config file and not restarting the server? I just tried out your config file

Re: can not send the actual prefix key other than ^b

2012-08-08 Thread LEVAI Daniel
On sze, aug 08, 2012 at 13:41:31 +0200, LEVAI Daniel wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > > > I'm using tmux's default prefix key ^b, but I needed an alternate prefix > > key too, so I've used 'set-option -g prefix2 C-a'. [...] Nicholas Marriott - 2012-08-08 12:33 > You need > > set -g prefix ^a > bi

Re: can not send the actual prefix key other than ^b

2012-08-08 Thread Tiago Resende
On Wednesday, 2012-08-08, at 15:13:55 +0200, LEVAI Daniel wrote: > On sze, aug 08, 2012 at 09:09:42 -0300, Tiago Resende wrote: > > When you change your prefix key, tmux doesn't automatically bind it to > > send-prefix, so you have to do it yourself. For example: > > This is confusing and useless

Re: can not send the actual prefix key other than ^b

2012-08-08 Thread Nicholas Marriott
You need set -g prefix ^a bind ^a send-prefix set -g prefix2 ^b bind ^b send-prefix -2 On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 01:41:31PM +0200, LEVAI Daniel wrote: > > Hi! > > > I'm using tmux's default prefix key ^b, but I needed an alternate prefix > key too, so I've used 'set-option -g prefix2 C-a'. > >

can not send the actual prefix key other than ^b

2012-08-08 Thread LEVAI Daniel
Hi! I'm using tmux's default prefix key ^b, but I needed an alternate prefix key too, so I've used 'set-option -g prefix2 C-a'. I'm used to the fact that I can use CTRL+b+b to enter ^b to my terminal any time I need (eg.: remote tmux). But, it seems to me that this only works for ^b. With any o