tmux show-messages
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https://youtu.be/LLk94fKpGg4{.youtube-embed}

Date: August 14, 2021

[https://youtu.be/LLk94fKpGg4](https://youtu.be/LLk94fKpGg4){.youtube-embed}

As we push the limits of tmux further and further you are bound to end up in a
situation where you are mashing down a hotkey and it's just not doing what you
want it to do, and you have no idea why.

`show-messages` is a tmux command that can be used to show what tmux is
actually doing behind the scenes. This might highlight any hot key conflicts
you might have in your `~/.tmux.conf`.

## man page for show-messages

In case you wnat more information about show-messages, here is the man page.

``` bash
show-messages [-JT] [-t target-client]
 (alias: showmsgs)

 Show server messages or information. Messages are stored, up to a
 maximum of the limit set by the message-limit server option. -J and -T
 show debugging information about jobs and terminals.
```

How I navigate tmux in 2021 [1]

> for more information on how I navigate tmux, check out this full post

Also check out the full YouTube
[tmux-playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTRNG6WIHETB4reAxbWza3CZeP9KL6Bkr)
to see all of the videos in this series.

References:
[1]: /tmux-nav-2021/