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Re: A Tmux Crash Course (2011)

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Post by raldu » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 6:57 AM UTC

oostevo wrote: post #7

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

I do not get the idea of buying a "book" to learn a *nix utility that explains itself in a single man page when all you need to learn is just a few keyboard shortcuts.

Obsessively focusing on the tool does not magically improve productivity.

Re: A Tmux Crash Course (2011)

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Post by benradler » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 7:06 AM UTC

Tmuxinator is an awesome gem that extends tmux to allow you to set up specific sessions that can be booted up. You can customize panes, pick specific apps to run in each, and there's tons of customization that can be done: https://github.com/aziz/tmuxinator

Re: A Tmux Crash Course (2011)

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Post by bpizzi » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 7:12 AM UTC

Tmux is definitely a nice piece of software.

For me it has been the last brick in date in my terminal-based IDE, which is made of zsh/vim/ssh/tmux.

Everything is running on a remote dedicated server, and I can access my dev environment wherever I can find an internet connection and launch a ssh tunnel (which is, in my case, almost everywhere I would find myself wanting to work). In that case, tmux's sessions are god sent.

I would have say the same for screen before, but with Tmux you can have this sort of niceties : https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline. Basically, it's a statusline with bells and whistle.

Re: A Tmux Crash Course (2011)

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Post by digitalzombie » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 7:22 AM UTC

oostevo wrote: post #7

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

I love this book.

The keybind on this book are tailor to vim user and I change my caplock to ctrl cause of tmux.

Re: A Tmux Crash Course (2011)

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Post by e12e » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 7:26 AM UTC

vincie wrote: post #28

oostevo wrote: post #7

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?

Thanks for the question on byobu - I wasn't aware of it. Not sure what you're asking about though. It appears byobu adds status information -- it doesn't seem to change the aesthetics of the terminal?

Re: A Tmux Crash Course (2011)

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Post by danneu » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 7:33 AM UTC

raldu wrote: post #31

oostevo wrote: post #7

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

I do not get the idea of buying a "book" to learn a *nix utility that explains itself in a single man page when all you need to learn is just a few keyboard shortcuts. Obsessively focusing on the tool does not magically improve productivity.

A manpage doesn't help you arrive at a workflow or show the forest for the trees or give field advice from someone that uses the tool or reveal ways to integrate the tool with other programs.

Re: A Tmux Crash Course (2011)

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Post by mcx » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 7:44 AM UTC

bkanber wrote: post #5

Cieplak wrote: post #3

How to copy to system clipboard from tmux output after mouse selection? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12287432/how-to-copy-to-s...

If you have mouse integration off, selecting text in the terminal copies it to the system clipboard. As simple as click+drag to select.

How about copying text isolated in a pane to the system clipboard? For example if I have a split vertical pane, it will copy text from both panes.

Re: A Tmux Crash Course (2011)

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Post by daemon13 » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 7:54 AM UTC

retr0h wrote: post #22

stormbrew wrote: post #12

Boy, a tiling WM might just blow his mind.

Ya, it is nice to see mac bois enjoy a tiling wm functionality. I currently use i3wm + tmux + vim. However, I rarely use tmux splitting due to i3wm splitting.

By any chance do you know some good beginner tutorial for installing + first steps for i3wm on Deb/Ubu?

Re: A Tmux Crash Course (2011)

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Post by dchest » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 7:57 AM UTC

voltagex_ wrote: post #26

Volpe wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Publishers can turn off DRM when publishing ebooks in Kindle Store.

Re: A Tmux Crash Course (2011)

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Post by aidos » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 8:09 AM UTC

I know everyone remaps their prefix to ctrl-a - how do you then jump to the start of a line?

Edit: Thanks for the solutions. Will have a play. Like the sound of using ctrl-\