So, I finally have hit upon a keybinding conflict that bugs me.
Before I mention exactly what it is, I should probably say first that I am not much of one to customize my command line tools. Or, at least, I should say that I'm resistant to doing so. You could chalk this up to having switched amongst various environments often enough to have grasped the ultimately ephemeral, unsatisfying nature of such pursuits or something, but that's mostly just going to be bafflegab to explain a simple fact: I resist it. That should be enough.
So, as I was switching from GNU screen to tmux I just went with the
flow, and began using Control-b (C-b) as the command prefix
keybinding, instead of remapping it to screen's C-a. More the fool I, I
guess.
The problem is that the keybinding for moving backwards one character in emacs is C-b. So, any time I want to use that now in emacs, I have to hit C-b twice.
This I'm sure is not news to anyone who has used emacs and tmux together much--it's a pretty big conflict.
The funny thing, though, is that I'd mostly been content not to use the C-f/C-b pair in emacs for moving forwards or backwards one character, respectively, in emacs until recently.
The hilarity here is that has got my fingers itching to stay mostly within
the confines of home row for line navigation is that I've been using ...
vi and so have deepened my use of its command-mode hjkl navigation keys.
Prior to that, I'd been content to drift over to the arrow keys when in
emacs.
And it's not like I haven't been using hjkl style navigation for ages, or
using emacs for ages. But I've not been using either deeply enough to care,
or much even to notice, this sort of conflict before. But now I'm using
both.
Alas.