What follows are a handful of configuration tips we have picked up throughout the years that are a bit useful and not necessarily obvious even after understanding the mechanics of how to configure tmux. These tips include the following:
Binding the double tapping of the prefix key to
last-windowChanging the escape time
Lengthening the history limit
Lengthening the display time
Starting the base index at 1
This is one of our favorite tricks. More often than not, once you switch to a window and see some information, you want to switch back to the one you came from.
As the title here implies, this can be made very easy by creating a key binding for the prefix key that performs the last-window command. This way you can double tap the prefix key to jump back and forth between two windows. Once as the prefix and once to run the last-window command.
To do this, simply add a bind-key entry to your .tmux.conf file and bind...