TMUX using HJKL to navigate panes

Question

Standard TMUX is set to use ctrl-b + [up, down, left, right] when navigating between panes.

I would like to make it so that I can use ctrl-b (or the prefix of my choice

Answer 1

You can do this as follows:

bind h select-pane -L
bind j select-pane -D
bind k select-pane -U
bind l select-pane -R

Note that mode-keys refers to using vi-like navigation within a buffer and status-keys refers to using vi-like editing within the status bar, but neither refers to switching between panes.

Answer 2

Did you remember to source your ~/.tmux.conf file? After making any changes in this file you need to enter the following command to see any of the changes take place

tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf