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How can I set the binding style? (emacs vs vi)
– Daniel Que
Commented Aug 12, 2014 at 22:39
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@DanielQue: Take a look at the tmux man page and search for "mode-keys" and "status-keys". Those are sub-commands that allow you to set the binding style. Alternately, it might be simpler to set an environment variable (EDITOR or VISUAL) to the style you want before starting tmux.
– Dennis Williamson
Commented Aug 12, 2014 at 22:55
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Thanks, I got it to work with set-window-option -g mode-keys vi in my .tmux.conf. But I was curious about the environment variable alternative and couldn't get it to work. Is it a shell environment variable, or a tmux environment variable that has to be set in the conf file?
– Daniel Que
Commented Aug 12, 2014 at 23:38
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@DanielQue: A shell environment variable. It will need to be exported or placed in tmux's envrionment like this: VISUAL=vi tmux
– Dennis Williamson
Commented Aug 13, 2014 at 4:54
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Also note that there is no regex search yet, here is an open issue on it sourceforge.net/p/tmux/tickets/9
– Elijah Lynn
Commented Oct 28, 2014 at 20:58

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