Split Keys seem inconsistent

[jbcpollak]

The documentation says:

prefix + |
split current pane horizontally
prefix + -
split current pane vertically
prefix + \
split current pane full width horizontally
prefix + _
split current pane full width vertically

I have two problems:

• The vertical split documentation seems backwards to what actually works: For me pressing _ gets a vertical split, and - gets a full-width vertical split. This actually makes more sense to me than the way it is described in the documentation.

• The horizontal split is inconsistent from the vertical split: For full vertical splits you press shift, but for full horizontal splits you don't press shift. For in-pane vertical splits you do not press shift, but for in-pane horizontal splits you do press shift.

I suppose this depends on your keyboard (mine is standard US layout), but this seems inconsistent.

I tried changing the bindings in my tmux.conf file, but it doesn't work - is it possible to change the plugin so it doesn't overwrite customizations? I've seen that other plugins work that way.

Thanks!

[dragon788]

This is probably due to the naming convention that tmux uses for the split direction.

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[timss]

I tried changing the bindings in my tmux.conf file, but it doesn't work - is it possible to change the plugin so it doesn't overwrite customizations? I've seen that other plugins work that way.

I'd like something similar too. Navigation/move/resizing key bindings are nice, but I'd like to keep my split key bindings. Current "workaround" is to just adapt pain_control.tmux into my main tmux.conf.

[dragon788]

You could probably add an override parameter for the plugin similar to how the recently opened pull request has. Otherwise it would be a good overall enhancement for the plugin to figure out how the other plugins avoid clobbering existing settings.