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Re: Tools I Use - tmux

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Post by DrCatbox »

pyrhho wrote: post #28

I keep having this nagging feeling I should use tmux more often. Right now I use it for remote pairing type stuff, but I can never bring myself to use it regularly. I love tmux, and it's super useful, but I just can't deal with the way it breaks scrolling. tmux and screen both horribly break scrolling and reverse searching. I'm not sure what the fix is, but until that works I can't see myself using it regularly.

CTRL+B (or whatever key to get into tmux mode input) then Page Up/Down to scroll or keyup/down. Then just esc when you are done scrolling.

Works fine here, havent needed to mock with settings to make it work like this. But the tildas scrollbar is broken by tmux, and the usual shift+pageup, and mousewheel to scroll... but thats okay.

Re: Tools I Use - tmux

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Post by JoshTriplett »

bricestacey wrote: post #16
te_chris wrote: post #12

So I've recently got into using vim and quite like the split screen features. How would I mix something like this in for doing day to day running commands and editing stuff with a vim split screen workflow? Sorry if this seems like a difficult question, but even stories of how people manage this would be great :)

I am a tmux/vim user and I find this a constant problem. Split tmux panes don't allow your vim windows to communicate with each other (you could always fallback to using the system buffer, though that is often insufficient). Yet, split vim windows don't allow a shell in a single window.

If you want a shell in a vim buffer, try ConqueTerm: https://code.google.com/p/conque/

Seems to work quite well, both for simple shell-like programs and full screen-oriented commands.

It does depend on a vim with Python support compiled in, but that doesn't seem like a huge constraint.

Re: Tools I Use - tmux

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Post by monzee »

pyrhho wrote: post #28

I keep having this nagging feeling I should use tmux more often. Right now I use it for remote pairing type stuff, but I can never bring myself to use it regularly. I love tmux, and it's super useful, but I just can't deal with the way it breaks scrolling. tmux and screen both horribly break scrolling and reverse searching. I'm not sure what the fix is, but until that works I can't see myself using it regularly.

Here's how to make shift-pgup/pgdn work in screen:

    echo "termcapinfo xterm ti@:te@" >> ~/.screenrc

Re: Tools I Use - tmux

#36

Post by pyrhho »

DrCatbox wrote: post #31
pyrhho wrote: post #28

I keep having this nagging feeling I should use tmux more often. Right now I use it for remote pairing type stuff, but I can never bring myself to use it regularly. I love tmux, and it's super useful, but I just can't deal with the way it breaks scrolling. tmux and screen both horribly break scrolling and reverse searching. I'm not sure what the fix is, but until that works I can't see myself using it regularly.

CTRL+B (or whatever key to get into tmux mode input) then Page Up/Down to scroll or keyup/down. Then just esc when you are done scrolling. Works fine here, havent needed to mock with settings to make it work like this. But the tildas scrollbar is broken by tmux, and the usual shift+pageup, and mousewheel to scroll... but thats okay.

> [...] but thats okay.

Agree to disagree, I suppose...

How do you do reverse search, though? Any replacement for ITerm's Ctrl-F?

Re: Tools I Use - tmux

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Post by pyrhho »

monzee wrote: post #34
pyrhho wrote: post #28

I keep having this nagging feeling I should use tmux more often. Right now I use it for remote pairing type stuff, but I can never bring myself to use it regularly. I love tmux, and it's super useful, but I just can't deal with the way it breaks scrolling. tmux and screen both horribly break scrolling and reverse searching. I'm not sure what the fix is, but until that works I can't see myself using it regularly.

Here's how to make shift-pgup/pgdn work in screen: echo "termcapinfo xterm ti@:te@" >> ~/.screenrc

Awesome, I will give this a try, thanks!

Re: Tools I Use - tmux

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Post by akg »

I love using terminal multiplexors, but prefer GNU Screen since it is almost always available wherever I need it. For those interested, I use the following to show a status line -- comes in handy when you want to name difference screens. You can always name a screen using "C-a A"

  hardstatus alwayslastline "%?%{yk}%-Lw%?%{yk}%n*%f %t%?(%u)%?%?%{yk}%+Lw%?"

Re: Tools I Use - tmux

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Post by DrCatbox »

pyrhho wrote: post #36
DrCatbox wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CTRL+B (or whatever key to get into tmux mode input) then Page Up/Down to scroll or keyup/down. Then just esc when you are done scrolling. Works fine here, havent needed to mock with settings to make it work like this. But the tildas scrollbar is broken by tmux, and the usual shift+pageup, and mousewheel to scroll... but thats okay.

> [...] but thats okay. Agree to disagree, I suppose... How do you do reverse search, though? Any replacement for ITerm's Ctrl-F?

CTRL+R ? Like normal. Is iTerm another iProduct? Never used macosx, wouldn't know.

All terminals (GNU/Linux) Ive used tmux on, ctrl+r works, and scrolling as described in previous post.

Re: Tools I Use - tmux

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Post by sequoia »

pyrhho wrote: post #36
DrCatbox wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CTRL+B (or whatever key to get into tmux mode input) then Page Up/Down to scroll or keyup/down. Then just esc when you are done scrolling. Works fine here, havent needed to mock with settings to make it work like this. But the tildas scrollbar is broken by tmux, and the usual shift+pageup, and mousewheel to scroll... but thats okay.

> [...] but thats okay. Agree to disagree, I suppose... How do you do reverse search, though? Any replacement for ITerm's Ctrl-F?

When you're in copy-mode (activated by prefix-[ also prefix-pgup as mentioned above) search is like vi or emacs depending on your copy-mode (vi by default I believe).

SO: / to search down, ? to search up. If you want to search from the top down, hit "g" in copy-mode to go to the top of the buffer (in vi mode). "G" to go to the bottom.

These, especially /, are really common conventions. / is used for search by vi, less, Opera (Firefox now too I think), even twitter.com.* My point is that / and ?, and to a lesser extent g/G/etc. soon becomes second nature and are worth learning because they are so common. How do you search backwards from the bottom in iTerm?

See "copy-mode" for more info http://www.rootr.net/man/man/tmux/1

*twitter.com (as well as duckduckgo.com and to a limited extend slashdot) uses some sweet vi keybindings. Try n, j, k, r, etc.

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