your pipe-pane command was real neat, I appreciate you sharing!
I get frustrated with the default ESC delay so I use set -sg escape-time 0
I re-bind the bind-keys without the default -r to avoid switching panes, hitting $DIRECTION arrow and going to the next pane $DIRECTION instead of my intent to move the cursor or view history etc…
<span style="color:#323232;">bind-key Up select-pane -U
</span><span style="color:#323232;">bind-key Down select-pane -D
</span><span style="color:#323232;">bind-key Left select-pane -L
</span><span style="color:#323232;">bind-key Right select-pane -R
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