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I wish it was possible to have screen-like bindings that don't require explicitly defining them all so that you don't have to unpress Ctrl each time. In screen you can press C-a c quickly but for that to work in tmux you have to add this: bind-key C-c new-window
Screen just binds C-a c and C-a C-c to the same command, for some values of c.
Why should I use tmux over screen? Why do I use screen over tmux?: - its old. A stable version is on every distro. Trying to start a screen session is more likely to succeed on any given box than a tmux session. I see my friends wrestle with their tmux setup being more recent on one box than another and their nested sessions get screwed up. I never have any issue. - I know it, and for my simple use it does everything…
For those who are just getting started with tmux: I advise looking around others' .tmux.conf files for some sensible settings. Like Vim, Tmux ships with a lot of powerful features disabled by default. My absolute favorite has to be binding a hotkey to opening URLs in the current window [0]. See [1] for a small demo I just recorded. To get started, here's my current config: [1] [0]: https://github.com/jbnicolai/tmux/b…
> Like Vim, Tmux ships with a lot of powerful features disabled by default. lol, my tmux keys are basically model after vim. This is the book I used to learn tmux and has vim key settings: https://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux
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> One tweak I can't live without is having the same key bindings to seamlessly switch between tmux panes and Vim split windows. YES, THIS! Setting up directional pane navigation to work with both tmux and vim panes as first-class entities was a huge workflow boon for me as well. It was a significant change that helped kick my setup over into vim+tmux+zsh as IDE vs. merely a collection of separate parts. It's worth no…
Honest question: Is there any benefit of using tmux over a proper tiling window manager? Or, why would I want to delegate some of the window manager tasks to a terminal emulator?
After I started getting used to using tmux, I found that my workflow naturally separated between things I'm doing on my terminal and things that require X (like my browser). These days I use a separate workspace for X apps and terminal (occasionally moving them around).
To make my life easy, I've added xmonad-like key bindings and window layout to tmux. Since other people are sharing:
https://github.com/ygt-mikekchar/dotfiles/blob/taka/home/.tm...
I often work while travelling and when I'm on the road I often don't bother cranking up X -- just work in the Linux console. Using tmux I barely notice a difference in my workflow and it helps extend the battery.
Congrats to the Tmux team for a great open source tool. Its sad that HN decided to take this moment to talk about sourceforge and not the product announcement.
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You use ctl+s as your bind?
Consider using . I recently switched and it's made a world of difference to my speed.
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> It was "the way" to share your OSS project in its time Nobody questions that. But that doesn't quality for "the GitHub of that time", because most people like to use GitHub, so the analogy is incomplete in some essential aspects.
Eh, that's pretty nebulous. There's a whole lot not to like about GitHub, too. Vaguely hand wavy "oh that doesn't count cuz most people like GitHub" isn't really much proof of anything.
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Why not use C-a?
I assume ctrl-s is easier to press than ctrl-a, I have trouble with ctrl-a on Mac with reconfigured CapsLock, and my bind key is ctrl-space.
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaand it's closed. Without comment.
Searching the tmux mailing list [0], it looks like there were some recent discussions about migrating to GitHub. Basically, it looks like the developers don't see any benefit to migrating that outweighs the cost of a migration. [1] There is a GitHub mirror [2] maintained by, I think, one of the developers, but they don't accept pull requests. It's interesting to note that, for such a popular project like tmux, there…