A Tmux Crash Course (2011)

I've seen this before, it was immensely helpful for moving from a multi-window workflow to a single window with tmux. The tmux docs themselves are a bit obtuse and don't do a very good job explaining the various concepts tmux uses.

This is the exact workflow we use at my company as well, and we've all grown to love it.

I got a new laptop today, and because we do all our dev on a remote server via ssh, tmux, and vim, it only took a few minutes to get my new machine set up for development. All I had to do was download iTerm and copy over my private key and config file! So easy.

I've seen this referred to as "Unix as an IDE". Big fan.

If you're on Mac, Thoughtbot has another post on solving this problem:

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/55885045171/tmux-copy-past...

I've been seeing tmux posts a lot the last couple of years, but I can't pull myself away from screen which I've been using for what almost a decade now?

It has a higher chance of being installed by default on a remote system I don't have root on, and works just fine for everything I need so I haven't had a reason to switch yet.

I use Terminator (http://www.tenshu.net/p/terminator.html) primarily on local machines instead of screen/tmux(or byobu). I get the added benefit of scrolling.

I tend to copy paste a lot from log tails etc into my my text editor for quick searches or other things. The infinite scroll feature(with a scroll bar) helps me out a lot. In tmux/screen i still haven't figured out a good workflow to copy a few screenful of content.

On servers i tend to use Byobu bindings which now use tmux(used Gnu screen some time ago). It has good defaults and some help for newbies to get used to.