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Yeah maddening! But you can remap it. I use this in my .screenrc to make it C-f:

escape ^Ff



C-f moves forward a character which is also useful. The easiest to type character that had the least impact I could find was to remap to C-j. Works well in both Dvorak and Qwerty layouts and that's the one emacs shortcut I use so infrequently that I can live with having to type it twice.


C-Space here


That’s my default as well, worked great, except on a machine with shared sessions, a test driver machine where several of us will login as the same user: some of those people come from windows machines where ctrl-space gets mapped to ctrl-@, which is NUL.

So we had to find another prefix for those machines; fortunately, tmux can have two.

This (space->@->NUL) is mentioned in the tmux docs, tbh.


C-o here. And C-x or C-p on a few rare nested screens in one particular screen session that I always have open. Those are identified by differently colored tabs in the hardstatus bar which is always visible.


C-t for me


I map mine to C^] which I find to be a good balance between easy to type and not conflicting with other tools


This is actually a very handy readline shortcut to search for a character. Useful when editing long command lines. Granted, I use Ctrl-Shift-] more often (searches backwards).


Two hands gesture? No way!




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