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staz on Jan 26, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: A minimalist guide to tmux

the urban legend is that they were developing and testing tmux inside of screen, which is why they needed a different prefix

JepZ on Jan 26, 2018 [–]

Actually, it is not just urban legend but part of their FAQ ;-)

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/FAQ#why-is-c-b-the-prefix-...

Nevertheless, I think they should have changed that in the release version and configure their dev environment. After all, it is pretty uncommon to run tmux inside screen for most use-cases.

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