^Z looks like a great escape sequence. Never thought of this one. ^O is my current favorite, and ^\ isn't far behind.
I use job control pretty often, so ^Z is out for me. I use ^O as my screen escape key, which back in the way old days used to flush output, which was extremely handy at 300 baud.
Me, I tend to leak tmux sessions and windows all over the place. It's almost like job control but with a modern twist.
Re:Terminology – a new terminal emulator
by bashinator on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @12:56AM
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I like ^J myself. Left pinky, right index finger.
It kind of sucks if you accidentally use a hardstatusline in both the nesting and the nested muxes, and it slightly sucks if you use the same escape key for both/all levels of nesting.
I have been using a nested screen setup for ~3 years at home and it's great. My outer screen uses ^Z as its escape key (I ^Z very few commands) and the inner ones use ^O.
It works wonderfully, and I never have a problem remembering which screen has what because of the different escape keys. It's sort of like the finger memory that you develop if you use multiple workspaces (esp in a WM that supports tagging windows) and always keep the same things on the same workspaces.