Wading Into Tmux

During a recent group debugging session at work, I was reminded about tmux. I hadn’t really used it outside of a couple of brief experiments that were little more than opening the application (and then struggling to kill it), so on this occasion I used screen. Whatever the reason, apparently now is the time for tmux! In this post, I’ll cover a few of the impediments and blessings encountered so far, since I seem to have gotten the good kind of tmux bug....

2017-12-02 · 3 min · 553 words · Nathaniel Hoag

Switch to Prezto and vim-airline

I’ve been using Oh-My-Zsh and Powerline for vim for a while now, but just recently converted to Prezto and vim-airline, repectively, on word of the usability and performance improvements. Already, the benefits have been well worth the minimal effort required to set these up. Note: anecdotally, the original switch from bash to zsh was quite easy - I understandably hear questions about this often. With Prezto, two improvements stand out markedly:...

2014-03-23 · 2 min · 232 words · Nathaniel Hoag