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I'm looking at tmux from screen, and have hit a bump while configuring the (highly configurable!) tmux key bindings.

Problem is, in my .screenrc I have

bindkey ^[[d prev
bindkey ^[[c next
bindkey ^[[a title
bindkey ^[[b screen 1

and the bindings work (they originally came from rxvt-tabbedex).

But in tmux there's apparently no way to bind commands to ShiftLeft/Right combinations. Please prove me wrong.

jasonwryan
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Leonid Shevtsov
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Try this (as a partial example):

bind -n S-Right next-window
bind -n S-Left previous-window

That should be enough to make it easy to get the other 2 settings working too. It works on my tmux installation (1.4) but YMMV.

You can also use the meta key (option on Macs, alt on PCs):

bind-key -n M-Right next-window
bind-key -n M-Left previous-window

If you're using Terminal.app in OS X you need to enable the use of the option key in the Preferences for that to work. (As far as I remember it works by default in iTerm, but if not it can definitely be enabled.)

iconoclast
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I don't know if you were in my situation (windows desktop using putty on linux server) but I have the same problem.

I solve this issue using MobaXterm instead of putty and using "classic bind-keys":

bind-key -n C-right next
bind-key -n C-left prev
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