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Re: Tmux Tutorial

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Post by l33tman »

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #66
ridiculous_fish wrote: post #28

If you're on a Mac, try tmux -CC with iTerm2. You get tmux goodness like multiple panes, persistent sessions, etc. But you also get native scrolling, native copy and paste, etc. It's what makes tmux usable for me.

Absolutely! TMux is pretty great by itself, but it doing its own internal scrolling and copy-pasting, though essential, is a usability frustration. Tmux + iTerm2 is a fantastic combo that takes all of Tmux's pwer and removes all the downsides. I searched if anything else used Tmux's Control Channel on Linux to replicate iTerm2's features, and I'm sad that I found nothing. (Frankly, it's kind of stunning to me that on…

Well on a related matter I've been searching for years for a Linux implementation of the bog standard terminal window on my Macbook, that persists scrollback and history for all open tabs during reboots etc.

Such an enormously usable thing, why isn't that readily available on Linux?

Re: Tmux Tutorial

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Post by thefz »

Townley wrote: post #12

One tip I didn't see mentioned (though it's pretty common in tmux) is to use the default window layouts for organizing multiple panes. You do this with Ctrl + b followed by esc + . esc + 1: All windows take up equal space horizontally, and stretch the full vertical width esc + 2: All windows take up equal space vertically, and stretch the full vertical width esc + 3: The first window takes up half of the screen verti…

Man, many thanks!

Re: Tmux Tutorial

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Post by qiqitori »

jdcaron wrote: post #2

I have been using screen for almost 10 years now, is it worth switching? I know it's not much learning but why switching when screen is not broken? It feels like there's more important stuff I can learn.

I switched to tmux because of this bug: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?26723 Huh, which apparently got fixed about three years ago, after being open for seven years.

Re: Tmux Tutorial

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Post by Biganon »

sam_lowry_ wrote: post #6
jdcaron wrote: post #2

I have been using screen for almost 10 years now, is it worth switching? I know it's not much learning but why switching when screen is not broken? It feels like there's more important stuff I can learn.

Tried tmux, then went back to screen. Tmux is for hipsters.

Comments like yours have nothing to do on HN

Re: Tmux Tutorial

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Post by chris_wot »

Does anyone have a good setup for debugging? There is voltron, but without tmux it won't work well, and I'd love to see a good layout that I could easily use.

Re: Tmux Tutorial

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Post by iamnotacrook »

rovr138 wrote: post #25
stuxnet79 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I prefer tmux to screen but the default key mappings took some getting used to. I've used it long enough that Ctrl-B and " / % for the screen splitting are natural to me now, but initially it was ... rough.

You could remapped whatever you don’t link. I have Caps Lock set to be Ctrl and tmux set to use Ctrl+a. For a vertical split, I have it mapped to Ctrl+a, |. For horizontal, Ctrl+a, - It’s pretty flexible.

Forgive me for asking a sort-off-offtopic question, but what's the reason terminals - and therefore the programs which run within them - offer such limited scope for ctrl-key usage. A lot of characters are not available for remapping, such as ctrl-numeric-digit, or ctrl-shift-anything etc. What's the root cause of this? Is it telnet related? ssh? And, assuming there's a compromise somewhere, would it be possible for the problem to be lifted with a config option which says "I'm using this shell locally on my chromebook - please don't inflict this 40 year old restriction on me"?
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