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A Tmux Crash Course (2011)

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Re: A Tmux Crash Course (2011)

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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 switched over just a couple of weeks ago, and i've got to say, i really like tmux. i just find it a little more flexible with regard to split layouts, etc.

Re: A Tmux Crash Course (2011)

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Pretty please buy it direct from PragProg. You get the Kindle version and the PDF (and an ePub) that way. Plus, I get more royalties. :)

Obviously... because it's double the price. Equivalent to saying: "Please give me more money... because that way i get more money"

Yes, heaven forbid someone be compensated for creating something of value

Re: A Tmux Crash Course (2011)

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Pretty please buy it direct from PragProg. You get the Kindle version and the PDF (and an ePub) that way. Plus, I get more royalties. :)

Obviously... because it's double the price. Equivalent to saying: "Please give me more money... because that way i get more money"

Sure but hey, if you buy the version from Amazon, you're only getting 1/3rd of the product, too. I can't guarantee you get updates I push to the book, and you also don't get the epub and PDF formats.

But yes, I get more money because there's no Amazon middleman. Even if it was the same price on Amazon, I'd get less royalties.

Just being honest.

Re: A Tmux Crash Course (2011)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty please buy it direct from PragProg. You get the Kindle version and the PDF (and an ePub) that way. Plus, I get more royalties. :)

Obviously... because it's double the price. Equivalent to saying: "Please give me more money... because that way i get more money"

I will support DRM free where possible.

Re: A Tmux Crash Course (2011)

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Looks like the author only uses one session he calles "work". What I really like about sessions is that it allows for isolated contexts which are easy to switch (prefix-s get prints you a nice list [1]). Right now I have seven sessions open [1]. Three are work projects (they usually have windows for vim, db console, etc.), two are university courses (vim, matlab), in one session I'm learning some Haskell, and in the…

> What I really like about sessions is that it allows for isolated contexts which are easy to switch (prefix-s get prints you a nice list [1]).

I always end up doing the same as the author (out of bad habit), when I should really be using windows more often (to split out dev work, irc, uni work, etc). It's good advice and stops the too-many-windows problem.

Also: what theme are you using in that screenshot?

Re: A Tmux Crash Course (2011)

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If you're willing to spend $14 for a more detailed tutorial, I'd strongly recommend _ tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development_ from The Pragmatic Bookshelf. It goes through common use cases, common customizations, and pair programming. http://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux

Do you show how to make it (or the terminal?) less ugly, without resorting to stuff like byobu?

Re: A Tmux Crash Course (2011)

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Looks like the author only uses one session he calles "work". What I really like about sessions is that it allows for isolated contexts which are easy to switch (prefix-s get prints you a nice list [1]). Right now I have seven sessions open [1]. Three are work projects (they usually have windows for vim, db console, etc.), two are university courses (vim, matlab), in one session I'm learning some Haskell, and in the…

> What I really like about sessions is that it allows for isolated contexts which are easy to switch (prefix-s get prints you a nice list [1]). I always end up doing the same as the author (out of bad habit), when I should really be using windows more often (to split out dev work, irc, uni work, etc). It's good advice and stops the too-many-windows problem. Also: what theme are you using in that screenshot?

The colors are base16 [1]. You can find the tmux conf for the tab bar at [2].

[1] https://github.com/chriskempson/base16

[2] https://github.com/fphilipe/dotfiles/blob/master/tmux.conf#L...

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