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When I open a terminal in iTerm2, I can use the command key to make it work like Meta, so that I can for example move between words (e.g. with ⌘–f and ⌘–v.
However, as soon as I start a tmux session within the terminal (e.g. by typing tmux new, for some reason these bindings don't work anymore, why? and how can I fix it?
Below is a picture of my iTerm2 preferences:
⌘← can be assigned to \eOH and ⌘→ to \eOF. You could assign ⌥← to \eb like in Terminal, but it doesn't work in vi mode or nano.
In emacs mode you could also add this to .inputrc:
"\e[1;9D": backward-word
"\e[1;9C": forward-word
"\e[3~": kill-word
C-v shows the escape sequence for the next key combination. ^[ is ESC in caret notation. bind -p prints currently bound commands.
I installed tmux as part of homebrew and it works just fine.
Once you have homebrew installed
brew install tmux will install tmux for you.
Best Answer
Do you have the command keys mapped to option in the Keys tab and the option keys set to act as meta in the Profiles tab? If you do, set the option keys to act as "+Esc" in the preferences:
When the option keys are set to act as meta, they are not recognized in
tmux.Edit:
\e[1;5Dand\e[1;5Care not recognized bytmuxeither. You could just map ⌘B to\eband ⌘F to\ef: