You can run this bash script on your Debian or Ubuntu server to run the above Vim+Tmux configurations. This might conflict with anything you currently have in your /.vimrc or /.tmux.conf files (If they already exist). Back them up first.
The key update that comes with tmux version 1.8 is a new command called copy-pipe. This command allows you bind a key to both copy the selected text to the tmux paste buffer and pipe the selected text into an arbitrary shell command.
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In order to make use of this new command, you will still need to install the reattach-to-user-namespace wrapper, which will connect tmux to the OS X clipboard service. Thankfully, homebrew makes this easy:
I'm using iTerm 2.1.4 and Tmux on OS X Yosemite. I'd like to be able to scroll my iTerm windows up and down but I'm not sure what controls scrolling. Does tmux control scrolling when I use it with iTerm or does iTerm still control scrolling?
Additionally, if memory serves, tmux is 'built into' iTerm, and thus features like multiplexing are built in as well. Is there a reason you want to use tmux in iTerm? The built-in OSX Terminal is definitely enhanced by a multiplexer like tmux, but iTerm seeks to alleviate those shortcomings by being a standalone solution.
EDIT 1: After upgrading to El Capitan, I noticed some unfamiliar behavior when using Terminal.app and tmux. This led me to an excellent article detailing options I wasn't aware of and which look to answer your question more thoroughly than I could hope to. All the options are tmux-specific, as far as I can tell, and are independent of OSX versions, so using them in Yosemite should be fine. Your scrolling question is covered here, with options like:
Enable tmux scroll mode and then press arrow up key; iTerm prompts you to set the aforementioned preference for scrolling. But in case you missed/dismissed this prompt you won't be prompted again, I think.
You can also use tmux-256color instead of screen-256color. Tmux-256colorsupports italics inside Tmux. In case your system does not have an entry fortmux-256color, you can download terminfo database and build a more completeone:
Open up a Tmux session, inside Tmux, the output of echo $TERM should bescreen-256color or tmux-256color depending on which term file you choose touse, but the output definitely should not be xterm-256color.
If you installed tmux via Homebrew or MacPorts, then you will also have anewer version of ncurses (6.X) present on your system installed by your packagemanager. This is the version of ncurses that tmux itself was built against,which is why you can use
After that, you should be able to correctly use tmux-256color as your TERMvariable. You can check that everything is working by running a few programsthat make use of ncurses and terminal colors, such as htop, man, ls -G,etc.
Next, we will have to install oh-my-zsh and tmux before setting up Powerlevel9k and your vim settings. There are a few caveats to getting everything setup neatly on Mac, so this post will go over that.
We're still not finished though. The key_bindings field is interesting that it allows us to capture any shortcut and execute certain commands. We can even write escape sequences for certain shortcuts. This is very powerful because it allows us to customize Alacritty even further if used with tmux.
Before we dive into this, note that I use tmux for managing my views. tmux is very powerful, so you can do a lot of things with it. You can see my tmux configuration file in my dotfiles repo: tmux.conf
Once you have this done, we need to add all other shortcuts as well. This is the only time-consuming part because you have to call xxd for each tmux shortcut to obtain the hex code. Let me know if you know if there is an easier way to do it (maybe an ASCII table?)
Tmux is a terminal multiplexer similar to screen. It allows you to create a session on a remote box, run applications in that remote session, "detach" from the session, and re-"attach" when desired. It also has advanced features such as multiple windows and split views. Using tmux is recommend when running an interactive CLI program remotely. If you get disconnected from your session, you can re-attach as though nothing happened. Alternatively, you can use the screen command if you do not need multiple terminals.
To detach (meaning exit the window to come back to later) from the tmux session, use CTRL + b then d (hold ctrl, press b, let go of both of the keys, and press d). Whatever program(s) you are running in the tmux session will continue going without you.
The default prefix is an awkward combination of keys. A lot of people (including me) configure tmux to use Ctrl+a instead. You can do this by adding these lines to your /.tmux.conf file:
By starting tmux with the tmux command, you are starting a new session. The sessions are numbered by default, starting with 0. As shown in the cheat sheet below, you can create a named session instead by using the -s flag and following it with the session name.
Instead of typing out the entire command, like with most commands in tmux you can use a shortcut. In this case Ctrl+a and $ will get you a prompt to rename the session.
You may find while using tmux that you need to switch between windows across sessions. You can do this by pressing Ctrl+a followed by w to display a list of the current windows. It will not display windows for detached sessions. You can select the window you want by scrolling through the list with your arrow keys.
If you have followed this kind of guide to setup iTerm2, Homebrew and ZSH, you only need to run the command brew install tmux. Homebrew is a package manager, ZSH is UNIX Shell; you should not get confused with Terminal Emulators and Terminal.
Your .vimrc is again arriving. We want to tell you, you should keep everything rightly ordered before using tmux. A simple command can make login to OS X difficult. Update your Xcode and Xcode Command Line Utilities. This ends the basics.
Now, you have everything right. Running the command tmux, starts tmux. If you are getting [EXITED], you should check and update your setup. tmux will have own configuration file. These are usual shortcuts for tmux :
I went out and did some research into how I can set tmux up to copy to the system clipboard, andfirst found that support for piping copied content was added in Tmux 1.8 via the copy-pipecommand, and then found a blog post byThoughtbot (of course!), that outlined how to set upcopy-pipe to use the Mac OS clipboard shell integration command, pbcopy.
copy-pipe command stores selected text in tmux buffer same to copy-selection, plus pipes selected text to the given command pbcopy. So we get text stored in two places: the tmux copy buffer and the system clipboard.
I have been using tmux since 2010. It is one of the most useful software utilities in my iMac and HP Envy running Ubuntu Linux. I use tmux daily alongside nvim, my preferred code editor. I would usually have nvim in the first window. The second window will usually split into panes both horizontally and vertically. Once you have a vertical split selecting from the mouse and copying is an option. That is why I will show you how to configure tmux to copy to the system clipboard.
Let's open a new tmux session, tmux new -s test. Let's split it into 2 vertical windows using "control + b" followed by %. Run a command in the first tab pane (ex: tree /Desktop) so that you have something to copy. Then we need to go to visual select mode. Press control b followed by [. Use the h-j-k-l or arrow keys to move to the line you need to select. "Shift + v" will select the whole line. Now move to the other end of the selection. Tmux will highlight your selection in yellow. Then press y or return to copy it to the clipboard.
From my search, it's quite obvious that tmux is the solution to my problem. Another candidate is screen, which I used for running some scripts on servers, but screen is pretty much a dead project now and its functions are far inferior to tmux.
Pay attention to the line set -g @resurrect-processes '"sudo pmset" "Vim"'. There are a number of default commands such as vi vim nvim emacs man less more tail top htop irssi weechat mutt that tmux-resurrect will automatically restore, but other commands outside of this list will not be restored automatically. So this line tells tmux-resurrect to restores extra commands if the command string match what is specified in the @resurrect-processes variable. In this case, since MacVim uses the command Vim and not vim, we have to specify "Vim" so tmux-resurrect know that it should restore Vim window. Another command I use is sudo pmset, so I specify "sudo pmset" here. For more details, read -plugins/tmux-resurrect/blob/master/docs/restoring_programs.md
Finally, there are 2 problems when you restore tmux sessions. First, if you create temporary tmux session first, so that you can run the command Ctrl r to restore previous sessions, you will have to kill the temporary session manually, which is annoying. Second, the restored windows will not have automatic-rename set to on, so their titles will not be updated automatically, which is equally annoying. To deal with these 2 problem, I use the following bash function:
This function is modified from To use it, simply type mux in the terminal and it will restore previous session and reattach to it automatically. If there are multiple previous sessions, you can use tmux a -t to attach to the session you want.
The default tmux status bar position is at the top, which is ideal for showing tab-like window titles. I want to maximize the space for showing window title, so I limit the left part and right part of the status bar to very basic information.
Those are my main points of customization of tmux. Granted there are other functions that can be customized such as pane splitting, pane switching, mouse mode, etc, but I don't use those functions much if at all in my every day activities. 2ff7e9595c
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