tmux

I’m still kicking with tmux, and have rounded a few rough edges since the last installment. One area of advancement has been learning about defining default sessions. To be clear, this doesn’t entail attaching to indefinitely running background sessions. This is firing up an on-demand pre-defined session. In researching support for this, I found teamocil and tmuxinator. These look interesting, but ultimately didn’t appeal to me since they are Ruby gems that introduce additional dependencies....

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....