My first goal was to navigate between windows. I looked up some ASCII and ANSI hex values. The thing is, you can represent any ASCII character as a hex value,Īnd sending a sequence of ASCII characters is exactly what I needed to do. But when I saw it, I knew it was the solution to my Send Hex Code is just an unassuming option in a pulldown in the iTerm key Unfortunately, that comesĪt a cost: it breaks using normal mouse selection to copy from iTerm2 window (if you turn on the appropriate options), allowing you to select windows and It’s actually pretty nice.Īssuming you send mouse events through to the server, tmux will recognize them Native keys like Shift-Cmd-Right or similar that we are used to using onĪt first, I played with the tmux mouse mode. You can remap a lot of things, but it’s never as easy as So going to the next window means using Ctrl-B n and going to another pane I was frustrated by this because in tmux you use a prefix key for everything, Use the iTerm-native hotkeys because it treats the tmux windows and panes as Navigate around my windows and panes in tmux. Matured (and preferably been built into tmux mainline so I don’t have toīut after using the integration, I found I was longing for easy hotkeys to I’ll check it out again someday after it has It also means an upgrade to iTerm2 sends you off to recompile tmuxīefore you can use it in integrated mode again.įor these reasons, I have set aside the iTerm2 tmux integration and I’m That can be a headache if your server side is used by multiple people. The right version of iTerm2 with the right version of patched tmux. To be fair, they added an option to auto-hide it on connect so it goesīecause this is still under development, you currently have to run You can only connect iTerm2 to one iTerm2-aware tmux session at a time. It exists, that I know about it, and explain why I don’t use it. Talk about that integration much in this post, but I wanted to point out that It’s an early stage thing, so you have toįorgive it, but at this point it still has some drawbacks. It so happens that the authors of iTerm2 are tmux users as well, and they have That is pretty handy to tell what’s going on in what windowĮven if you don’t take the time to set a name for it. So it might start as “bash” and changeĪutomatically to “vim” or “top” or “tail” depending on what you run If you don’t set a window title, tmux will auto-set it for you based Tmux supports multiple panes within a window, where screen supports only Possible because it’s all going on in the same server process. Session from multiple clients simultaneously (say you left tmux attachedĪt the office, you can attach to that same session at home withoutĭisrupting the session you left attached at work). That matter? Because it means you can lop a window off of one tmux Will instantiate clients that connect to that existing server. Tmux, the first time you run it, you start a server, but subsequent runs In screen, each instance is its own completely separate process. Tmux, it’s conceptually the same thing as GNU screen, with someĭifferences, and (in my opinion) some advantages. I am alsoĪ huge fan of tmux, the terminal multiplexor. Keymaps, which I settled on after writing the original post.Īs I’ve said before, I’m a huge fan of iTerm2. UPDATE 16 July 2012: I have updated this post to reflect my current It’s also usually much faster to do a mark/copy operation within tmux If my hand is already on the trackpad, switchingīetween windows or panes, or doing pane resizes, is very handy with the These days, I have mouse mode turned on by default in. iTerm has no idea that the pane boundary exists it’s justĪnother character printed in the terminal window. Text in a pane that has another pane to its side, the terminal will just copyĪcross the boundary. If you turn mouse mode off, and try to copy Would not be possible if tmux were running on my Mac, so I am almost always I work on remote servers over ssh connections, detach from I practically never do that,īecause most of the usefulness of tmux for me is in leaving active sessions to Helpful if you are running tmux on your Mac. This problem, like reattach-to-user-namespace, but that is only Simple “mark text and copy” operation on the native OS. Namely, there are two problems.įirst, it completely takes over the mouse. So people are free to incorporate it into their existing files which mayĪs I commented in my last post about tmux, tmux mouse mode left UPDATE 17 March 2013: I am placing this post into the public domain
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