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Getting Started with tmux

Getting Started with tmux

By : Victor Quinn
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Getting Started with tmux

Getting Started with tmux

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By: Victor Quinn
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Overview of this book

The book is intended for software developers, DevOps engineers, and other professionals who make heavy use of the terminal in their daily workflow. Some familiarity with the terminal is useful but no prior experience with tmux or other terminal multiplexers (such as GNU Screen) is required.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Jump Right In
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1. Jump Right In
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Running tmux
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Sessions
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Naming the session
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Explaining tmux commands
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Summary
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2. Configuring tmux
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2. Configuring tmux
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Using the set-option command
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Creating a tmux configuration file
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Emacs or vi mode
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Enabling mouse modes
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Changing the status bar
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Binding keys
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Unbinding keys
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Status bar revisited
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Option types
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Handy configuration tips
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Accessing the man page
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Show options
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Summary
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3. Sessions, Windows, and Panes
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3. Sessions, Windows, and Panes
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Overviews
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Playing around with sessions, windows, and panes
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Working with more panes
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Zooming panes
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Resizing panes
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Switching between panes by number
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Cycling through pane layouts
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Other pane operations
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Summary
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4. Manipulating Text
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4. Manipulating Text
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Explaining the Window history
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Explaining the different tmux modes
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Interacting with the paste buffer
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Working with the paste buffer
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5. Diving Deeper
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5. Diving Deeper
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Understanding tmux commands and Command mode
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Advanced paste buffer usage
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An advanced session and window usage
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Breaking panes
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Joining panes
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Launching with defaults
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Summary
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6. tmux for SSH, Pair Programming, and More
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6. tmux for SSH, Pair Programming, and More
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Using tmux over SSH for long lived sessions
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Using tmux for pair programming
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Summary
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7. Using Other Tools with tmux
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7. Using Other Tools with tmux
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Using tmux with the OS X Pasteboard
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tmux configuration from the maximum-awesome project, by Square
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Using tmuxinator to make session management easier
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Using wemux to ease multiuser experience
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Listing other tools to be used with tmux
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Summary
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A. Appendix
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A. Appendix
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Why tmux?
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The configuration reference
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Key binding and command reference
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Index
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Index

Creating a tmux configuration file

In order to keep the settings around after restarting tmux, we will create a configuration file that will include all the information about what options we want to set and to what values.

Like many other Unix-based utilities, configuring tmux is as simple as creating a file with the name .tmux.conf in your home directory.

However, unlike many other configuration files, a tmux configuration file does not contain some kind of specific configuration language for the program, rather it consists of a series of tmux commands that are run, in order, when tmux starts up. Most of the commands we'll see are simple set-option commands similar to the commands we played with in the previous examples. Let's create and start building our configuration file:

$ cd ~
$ touch .tmux.conf

Open this newly created file in your favorite text editor and we're ready to rock!

Tip

Like with most Unix-based utilities, this file in your personal directory contains the configuration for...

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