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How to turn down the timeout between prefix key and command key in tmux?

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Mar 15, 202622152 views
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Problem

My : (to make the command keys same as GNOME Teminator) The situation: after horizontal splitting window into 2 panes, switching to a pane with Ctrl+a Up arrow, I must wait for a while (2-3 seconds) to view shell history commands in this pane. Because if I press the Up again it will switch back to the other pane instead of showing me a shell history command. How can I turn down this?

Error Output

set -g prefix C-a
unbind C-b
bind C-a send-prefix

bind-key o split-window -v
bind-key e split-window -h

bind-key w kill-pane

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Fix for: How to turn down the timeout between prefix key and command key in tmux?

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Up, Down, Left, and Right ( bindings; and Control- and Meta- of the same keys for ) are “repeatable” bindings by default (made via ). After typing the prefix key and any single repeatable key, you can type any other repeatable key (without having to type the prefix again) within the number of milliseconds specified via the session option (the default is 500ms). You can examine the current value of with these shell commands: If you want to disable the repeat for the current session, then type yo…

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