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For the vim lovers, this trick is quite good :

  unbind [ # free the weird binding
  set-window-option -g mode-keys vi # switch to vi bindings
  bind Escape copy-mode # ctrl-a ESC put your pane in a kind of vi normal mode
  bind-key -t vi-copy v begin-selection # start a visual select mode with v like in vim
  bind-key -t vi-copy y copy-selection # yank with y
  unbind p # free another weird binding 
  bind p paste-buffer # paste with crtl-a p

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How is p a weird binding? It's a pneumonic for "previous" and works the same as it does in gnu screen, which is tux's "competitor."

indeed, agreed. I only use the prefix number shortcut for that.

> It's a pneumonic for "previous"

I'm guessing this is autocorrect, but an autocorrect that knows 'pneumonic' (the Firefox spell-checker doesn't!) but not 'mnemonic' seems even less likely than a person who knows the first word but not the second.

Anyway, 'previous' is perhaps less likely to spring to mind than 'back' or 'reverse' or even 'last', each of which would have different mnemonics. ('Last' has a particularly good mnemonic if you keep your hands to the Holy Home Row, which is why vi users, who are most likely to worship at the Altar of the Home Row, can't use it.)

previous is unambiguous. Last is extremely ambiguous. Last = Nth element or current -1? Similar with back or reverse. Previous means N-1 every time. Also it's a pretty commonly used programmer idiom.

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