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title = "Tmux basics"
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date = 2015-08-04
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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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| ------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------- |
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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) |