Hello,

** Eric Eric [2011-09-08 17:30:53 -0400]:

> Hello, I've decided to finally make the switch from screen to tmux.  I had
> my screenrc set up to map my function keys to switch to the appropriate
> terminal within a screen (eg pressing F3 would switch to terminal 3).  To do
> this, I had to modify my screenrc to start numbering at 1 instead of 0.  I'm
> having trouble doing the same in .tmux.conf.  My .tmux.conf currently
> contains the following:

> set-option base-index 1

> new  -n WindowName1 vim
> neww -n WindowName2 vim
> neww -n WindowName3 vim

> bind-key -n F1 select-window -t :1
> bind-key -n F2 select-window -t :2
> bind-key -n F3 select-window -t :3

> The mappings of F1, F2 and F3 work as expected.  However, base-index seems
> to have no effect.  I added the three commands to create new windows on
> startup from the tutorial, just as a test.  However, when I start tmux, no
> new windows are created.  Also note that I can add a bunch of garbage (eg
> "adf zsadf asdf") to the .tmux.conf file and it doesn't seem to cause
> errors.  However, if I add a new bind-key line (or comment an existing one
> out), it seems to get picked up, so tmux must be reading the config file.

> Any ideas what's going on here?

> Thanks for any assistance.
Before digging deeper, did you try option `-g'? Update a line in your .tmux.conf
to following and check
set-option -g base-index 1

Then, information about version and OS might help too.

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