Remap tmux prefix shortcut of control b

HELP ME

7/6/24, 2:44 AM

I tried to remap tmux prefix shortcut from control b to control / by

unbind-key C-b
set-option -g prefix C-/
bind-key C-/ send-prefix

but not fulfill the expectation, how is the correct way to accomplish it ?

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Artur Meinild

7/6/24, 5:45 AM

From man tmux:

When specifying keys, most represent themselves (for example ‘A’ to ‘Z’). Ctrl keys may be prefixed with ‘C-’ or ‘^’, and Alt (meta) with ‘M-’.

In addition, the following special key names are accepted:

Up, Down, Left, Right, BSpace, BTab, DC (Delete), End, Enter, Escape, F1 to F20, Home, IC (Insert), NPage/PageDown/PgDn, PPage/PageUp/PgUp, Space, and Tab. Note that to bind the ‘"’ or ‘'’ keys, quotation marks are necessary [...]

As you can see, a number of special keys are allowed, but / isn't one of them. So it's simply a case of that particular key not being bindable in tmux.

Your configuration is correct, so if you wanted to make Ctrl+x the prefix key, this would work:

unbind-key C-b
set-option -g prefix C-x
bind-key C-x send-prefix

tmux also has an advanced feature called "user-keys", where custom escape sequences can be defined and bound, but I'm not sure it will help in this case, since / isn't an escape sequence.

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