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by ktjfi 2665 days ago
That reminds me of myself. I remember when I moved from screen to tmux and the default "master" key changed from ^A to ^B. All the time lost changing it back to ^A in .tmux.conf. In the end I simply got used to ^B and that's what I have.

I've gone as far as to open bug tickets for open source projects arguing that the defaults should be changed so I don't have to configure as much software when I move to another computer :D
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pawal 2665 days ago
The problem I have with ^B is that the b is too far away from ctrl. A is much closer, which makes it a much faster one-hand press.
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tjoff 2665 days ago
Yes, defaults are super important! And in my opinion one of the big shortcomings for many cli applications.

I try to keep the defaults when they make sense, and I try to make my configs add to the experience but not change it too much. So it's nice if it's there but I'm still productive on a clean system.

But ^A in tmux is one of those changes, I think ^A is so much more ergonomic (and used alot) that I have it remapped for that reason. But I still have to remember the default binding.

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killjoywashere 2665 days ago
> open bug tickets for open source projects arguing that the defaults should be changed

I sort of feel like there should be something like a POSIX compliance standard for keybindings. But the Vim/Emacs divide is pretty big.

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