Select Pane with C- in tmux

Question

In tmux, the default behavior for processing C-b 0 is to jump to window 0. I would like C-b C-0 to jump to pane 0 in the current window. My attempts at adding,

bind-key C-0 select-pane -t 0

to my .tmux.conf have failed. Is there something else I'm missing?

do you have one line in your `tmux.conf`: `set -g base-index 1` or `set -g pane-base-index 1`? if yes, your window/pane is 1 based. — Kent, Sep 08 '13 at 12:57

score 77 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 09 '14 at 14:10

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Not exactly the way you are looking for, but I doubt you have a reason not to love the following:

display-panes or the likes (<prefix> + q by default),
enter the number of the pane you are switching to.

answered Jan 09 '14 at 14:10

Covi

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This is exactly what I am looking for. But the time of pane number showing is too short, Can I set the time value?? – CodyChan May 23 '14 at 08:15
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I got it: put "set display-panes-time 2000 #2s" in .tmux.conf – CodyChan May 23 '14 at 08:40
Do you know how to start this pane numbering from 1 instead of 0? – Phani Sep 10 '14 at 19:50
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@phani `set -g pane-base-index 1` – Silas Paul Jan 28 '15 at 16:04
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I would love this feature even more if instead of numbers it would output letters for each panel, since they are much easier to type and much closer to the keyboard's home row. – Sep 22 '16 at 19:02

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

You need to modify your terminal so that tmux can recognise control+digit keystrokes correctly. (source: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/96884/using-ctrl0-9-to-cycle-between-windows-using-tmux)

If you are using iTerm2, for example, then:

go to Preferences > Profiles > Keys and click +
input ctrl+0 as the keyboard shortcut
select Send Escape Sequence from the action drop-down menu
input Esc+[27;5;48~ in the characters to send textbox
click OK, then restart iTerm

Then, finally add to your .tmux.conf the following:

bind-key C-0 select-pane -t 0

restart tmux (make sure to close all sessions withtmux kill-session). You should now be able to select pane number 0. To get the other 9 keys to work, repeat the above 5 steps with the appropriate escape sequences. They can be found in the link provided.

Select Pane with C- in tmux

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