[SOLVED] Tmux doesn't parse the configuration for ~/.tmux.conf

Question

Similar to the issue found here, although since the solution posted does not work, I have nothing to go off of.  I did a trace on tmux, and it's reading the configuration file (also, even a removed ~/.tmux.conf doesn't have it read /etc/tmux.conf), but it isn't actually executing the commands I put in there.  I can source configuration manually inside tmux, so it's a minor annoyance at best.  Permissions are 644, it's in where it's supposed to read, but for some reason it just isn't parsing. 
My tmux configuration right now:
set-option prefix C-a
set status-fg brightgreen
set status-right "#[fg=brightwhite] (>^,^)><(^,^)><(^,^)><(^,^<) #[fg=brightgreen] #T #[fg=brightwhite] <(^,^<*>^,^)> #[fg=brightwhite] %F %T"
set status-right-length 100
set status-interval 1
set status-bg blue
bind C-a select-window -t !
bind C-n select-window -t +
bind C-p select-window -t -
bind C-Space select-window -t +
bind Space select-window -t +
I've also killed the server and removed the socket and directory at /tmp/tmux-$(id -u)/ to no avail including a quick reboot.  I've also tried starting with tmux -f ~/.tmux.conf, also to no avail.  Am I missing something?
Last edited by minozake (2012-08-25 14:55:18)

Answer 1

I figured it out.  First off, I needed to use set -g in order to get the options set globally, otherwise they would be thrown away.  For all the keys I wanted to rebind, I needed to unbind them first.  All in all, I finally figured it out, but I don't remember actually needing to unbind the keys before rebinding them.