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   The Psychotic Network Ferret (nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 05:10:18 JST The Psychotic Network Ferret

   I switched to tmux soon after the initial release, roughly 17 years ago.

   less than three months ago, I finally pushed through accepting ctrl+b as the control character. I had started using GNU Screen maybe a year prior to the release of tmux, and fought against ctrl+b in favor of Screen's ctrl+a for nearly 17 years.

   I finally changed.

   It was nothing. I avoided change for 17 years, and for nothing. The change took me hours, not even days.

   Reason: ctrl+a does other useful shit.

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 05:10:16 JST silverwizard

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     @nuintari I have used neither that long, but I definitely took two years to accept Ctrl+b, but minicom made me too annoyed to not switch. Ctrl+b seemed like a berzerk default!
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     The Psychotic Network Ferret (nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 05:20:19 JST The Psychotic Network Ferret

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     • silverwizard

     @silverwizard ctrl+a is basically the HOME key, it will return you to the start of line.

     ctrl+b conflicts with nothing. That is why it is the sane control character.

     I knew this 17 years ago, and still decided to fight against it, in the name of muscle memory.

     I was fucking wrong.

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