Getting Started with tmux电子书

Getting Started with tmux

Table of Contents

Getting Started with tmux

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Jump Right In

Running tmux

Sessions

Naming the session

The window string

Creating another window

The prefix key

Help on key bindings

Searching for text

Detaching and attaching

Explaining tmux commands

Tab completion

Aliases

Renaming windows

Killing windows

Summary

2. Configuring tmux

Using the set-option command

Creating a tmux configuration file

Emacs or vi mode

Enabling mouse modes

Changing the status bar

Modifying the background color of the status bar

Reloading the configuration

Changing the foreground color of the status bar

Highlighting the active window

Binding keys

Viewing current bindings

Chaining multiple commands to a single key

Comments in the configuration file

Binding a new prefix key

Binding keys without the prefix key

Unbinding keys

Status bar revisited

Option types

Handy configuration tips

Binding the double tapping of the prefix key to last-window

Changing the escape time

Lengthening the history limit

Lengthening the display time

Starting the base index at 1

Accessing the man page

Show options

Summary

3. Sessions, Windows, and Panes

Overviews

Sessions

Windows

Panes

Playing around with sessions, windows, and panes

Multiple sessions

Multiple panes

Working with more panes

Zooming panes

Resizing panes

Switching between panes by number

Cycling through pane layouts

Other pane operations

Summary

4. Manipulating Text

Explaining the Window history

Explaining the different tmux modes

A sample workflow with Copy mode workflow

Entering Copy mode

Moving the cursor around

Scrolling through the Window history

Jump by search or line

Leaving Copy mode

Copying text into the paste buffer

Interacting with the paste buffer

Pasting text from the paste buffer

Choosing items from the paste buffer

Working with the paste buffer

Summary

5. Diving Deeper

Understanding tmux commands and Command mode

Advanced paste buffer usage

Saving a paste buffer to a file

Loading a paste buffer from a file

Setting a paste buffer directly

Capturing pane contents in a paste buffer

Deleting copied text from a paste buffer

Clearing the paste buffer history

An advanced session and window usage

Jumping from one window in a session to another window in another session

Moving windows

Linking a window between sessions

Breaking panes

Joining panes

Launching with defaults

Summary

6. tmux for SSH, Pair Programming, and More

Using tmux over SSH for long lived sessions

Benefits of using Vagrant

Creating a virtual machine with Vagrant

Walking through a sample workflow with tmux over SSH

Launching tmux on SSH connect automatically

Using tmux for pair programming

Connecting to the same session locally

Vagrant Cloud for better security pair programming

Using grouped sessions for pairing

Summary

7. Using Other Tools with tmux

Using tmux with the OS X Pasteboard

tmux configuration from the maximum-awesome project, by Square

Using tmuxinator to make session management easier

Installing tmuxinator

Understanding the tmuxinator configuration

Revisiting the commented lines

Summarizing tmuxinator

Using wemux to ease multiuser experience

Explaining the wemux modes

Explaining other wemux additions to tmux

Listing other tools to be used with tmux

Summary

A. Appendix

Why tmux?

The configuration reference

Key binding and command reference

Chapter 1 – Jump Right In

Chapter 2 – Configuring tmux

Chapter 3 – Sessions, Windows, and Panes

Chapter 4 – Manipulating Text

Chapter 5 – Diving Deeper

Index