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title: Tmux basics
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Discovered it not a long time ago (and now replaced with the experimental
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version of iterm2 [because of goodies](https://iterm2.com/features.html)),
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tmux deserves a lot of attention because it have lots of potential.
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TMUX stands for Terminal Multiplexer. _It lets you switch easily between
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several programs in one terminal, detach them (they keep running in the
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background) and reattach them to a different terminal. And do a lot more._
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Yeah, they sell themselves well.
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For the novices, it lets you have panels (split terminals) and windows just
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with some keybinds, detaching from them (so they keep running) and with the
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possibility of storing configurations for certain tasks, in which you need to
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open a running server and editor and some watcher at the same time, just with
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a command.
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For example, if you are like in the top screenshot, pressing `CTRL`+`b` `%`
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`CTRL`+`b` `"` changes the layout to this:
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And those numbers with a tilde at the bottom? The open windows. You can open
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more pressing `CTRL`+`b` `c`, like this:
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This are the two basic things you will use everyday. Of course, there are
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[more stuff you can do](http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-
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current/man1/tmux.1?query=tmux&sec=1), but for the basics I will list the more
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frequent keybinds here to start using it right now.
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Meta key | `CTRL`+`b`
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Split pane horizontal | `Meta`+`"`
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Split pane vertical | `Meta`+`%`
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Swap pane | `Meta`+`o`
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Kill pane | `Meta`+`x`
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Toggle focus on current pane | `Meta`+`z`
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Show pane numbers | `Meta`+`q`
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Press a the number of the pane you want to focus when shown. |
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Break pane into window | `Meta`+`+`
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Restore window to pane | `Meta`+`-`
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Change pane layout | `Meta`+`spacebar`
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Create new window | `Meta`+`c`
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Switch to window #x | `Meta`+`<number>`
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Kill window | `Meta`+`&`
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Next window | `Meta`+`n`
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Previous window | `Meta`+`p`
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List windows | `Meta`+`w`
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Rename window | `Meta`+`,`
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Find window | `Meta`+`f`
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- **Homepage: **[tmux](https://tmux.github.io)
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- **My tmux.conf:** [Github](https://github.com/fmartingr/dotfiles/blob/master/home/.tmux.conf)
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- **Cheatsheet by [MohamedAlaa](https://github.com/MohamedAlaa)**: [Tmux cheatsheet gist](https://gist.github.com/MohamedAlaa/2961058)
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pub_date: 2015-08-04
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