Moving panes between tmux sessions is something that makes tmux a very flexible and powerful tool. I don't need this ...
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I love the freedom of writing in markdown. It allows me to write content from the comfort of my editor with very litt...
I recently found a really great plugin by mhinz to open files in neovim from a different tmux split, without touching...
As I am toying around with textual, I am wanting some popup user input to take over. Textual is still pretty new and ...
The default keybinding for copy-mode is one that is just so awkward for me to hit that I end up not using it at all. ...
One of the first things I noticed broken in my terminal based workflow moving from Windows wsl to ubuntu was that my ...
I have added a hotkey to my copier template setup to quickly access all my templates at any time from tmux. At any po...
tmux popups can be sized how you like based on the % width of the terminal on creation by using the flags (h, w, x, y...
Uses
This is a listing of all the things that I use on a daily basis to build data pipelines, lead my team, and build this website.
[[ uses-2021 ]]
Everything installed on my machines is done through ansible-playbooks. It’s been a long transformation to get here, but its so satisfying to boot a brand new system, run a single command a have every single thing cofigured exactly to my liking.
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tmux targeted session
This is something that I made up but use every single day, this is what keeps much of what is on my blog or my teams private work wiki going. I have a few very important directories that I have assigned directly to a hotkey for fast session switching.
bind -n M-i new-session -A -s waylonwalker_com "cd ~/git/waylonwalker.com/ && nvim" bind i popup -E -h 95% -w 95% -x 100% "tmux new-session -A -s waylonwalker_com 'cd ~/git/waylonwalker.com/ && nvim'" bind -n M-I popup -E "tmux new-session -A -s waylonwalker_com 'cd ~/git/waylonwalker.com/ && nvim'"
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tmux detach
tmux detach is a handy tmux command that will quit your current session while keeping it running. The full name of the comamnd is detach-client, detach is a shorthand.
default keybinding
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tmux attach
attach is one of the most useful features of tmux. If you have no interest in tmux for pane and window management, you should use tmux for this. It can be a life saver if you ever get disconnected from the host machine or accidently close your terminal you can connect right back into the session you were just in using attach.
tmux attach
this command will simply attach back to tmux if you are ever disconnected
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tmux ls
tmux ls will list the sessions that you have running within the tmux server if tmux is currently running. This is handy to combine with commands such as attach.
tmux ls
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tmux command line
So far we have covered a lot of tmux commands and how they map to keybindings but these same commands can be executed at the command line.
Let’s make a popup that displays our git status for 5s or until we close it manually. We can run the following command at the command line, in a split.
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tmux copy-mode
tmux copy-mode is a tmux mode that lets you scroll, search, copy, and jump your way through a pane. There are a ton of keybindings for copy-mode, the main ones you will need to know are / for searching down ? for searching up, n for next item, space for starting a selection, and enter to copy the selection. Arrow keys will be used for navigation unless you have specified vi mode, then it will be hjkl.
Default keybinding to get into copy mode is prefix+[.
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tmux join-pane
Join-pane allows you to join panes that you have broken away from your window, or created in a different window to the window you want it in. As far as I know there is not a default keybinding for it.
Before you can join a pane you must first have a pane marked to join. Once you mark a pane, go back to the window you want to join it to and join-pane.
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tmux break-pane
Break-pane is a handy tmux command when your layout gets too cramped and you want to just move a split into its own window. Calling break-pane does exactly that, it creates a new-window for you and moves your currently selected split into that window
Default key binding for break-pane
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tmux zoom
Zooming into the current split in tmux is a valuable tool to give yourself some screen real estate. These days I am almost always presenting, streaming, or pairing up with a co-worker over a video call. Since I am always sharing my screen I am generally zoomed in to a level that is just a bit uncomfortable, so anytime I make a split it is really uncomfortable, being able to zoom into the split I am focused on is a big help, and also help anyone watching follow where I am currently working.
Default key bindings for zooming the current split
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tmux new-window
New window as it sounds makes new windows in tmux. Windows are kind of like tabs. They are another screen within your sessions that you can name and make new panes in.
Default key bindings for creating and navigating windows in tmux.
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tmux slect-pane
These are my MOST often used keybindings that I use in tmux. They allow me to jump between splits with ease with a vim style layout. I can hold mod and jump between panes with a familiar arrow key.
bind -n M-h select-pane -L bind -n M-l select-pane -R bind -n M-k select-pane -U bind -n M-j select-pane -D
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