Rebind a built-in menu to another key combination?

[int...@intelfx.name]

Hi,

So in tmux there is a number of built-in menus that offer various
actions on a pane or window. The ones I know about are activatable with
a mouse right-click or Prefix+< / Prefix+>. As far as I can see, they
are implemented as built-in bindings that open-code the entire menu
definition as the rhs of the bind-key command.

Now, let's say I'm not satisfied with the default key assignment and
want to rebind those menus to some other key sequence. I see two ways
around it:

1. copy-paste the entire binding into my `.tmux.conf`, changing the lhs
to the key I want;
2. invoke an external script from `.tmux.conf`, which would run `tmux
list-keys -a <original lhs>`, substitute the lhs with the desired key
and eval the result as a tmux command.

The solution (1) has a downside of hard-coding the menu definition into
my .tmux.conf, which means that if the menu definition is ever changed
upstream, I won't get the updated one, and the solution (2) has a
downside of being non-idempotent (i.e. it will mess everything up if I
ever reload .tmux.conf) as well as a downside of being a giant hack.

What is the preferred way to do what I want? If there isn't one,
perhaps it could be considered an RFE to make one?

Thanks,

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Ivan Shapovalov / intelfx /

[Nicholas Marriott]

There is no way to change these bindings without rebinding the entire key to your own menu.

I don't mind having a way to do it but I don't want a million options one for each menu option.

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