Tmux Commands

tmux.md

Inspired by https://gist.github.com/henrik/1967800 NOTE: These presuppose my dotfiles

• t tmux
• tmux start new session
• tmux new -s myname start new with session name
• tmux a attach
• tmux a -t <name> attached to named session
• tma <name> tmux attach to named session, with tab autocomplete
• tat tmux attach to a session named after the current directory
• tmux ls list sessions
• tmux kill-session -t <name> kill session named
• tmux kill-session -a kill all sessions

Within tmux Session

• prefix == CTRL + s, this saves CTRL + a for jumping to the start of a line
• <prefix> d to kill session
• <prefix> j jump to tmux pane below current pane (presupposes dotfiles)
• <pre> % open new plane horizontally
• <pre> " open new plane vertically
• <pre> d detatch from current session
• <pre> x close current pane
• CTRL d close current pane
• <pre> z zoom in on current pane (make it occupy entire screen), repeat to zoom out
• <pre> c create new window in current session
• <pre> t open 24-hr clock in present pane
• <pre> h move to previous window
• <pre> l move to next window
• <pre> CTRL-l jump to last window you were on
• <pre> L jump to last session you were on
• <pre><n> jump to window n
• <pre> b break pane out into its own window
• <pre> C-j open choose tree mode to select a new window, to view panes while in choose-tree mode

Scroll Mode

• <pre> k (custom) or <prefix> [ enter scroll mode
• normal vim navigation/searching will work
• y to copy the highlighted text into the OSX clipboard
• q quit scroll mode
• ? <string> search and find string above cursor
• / <string> search and find string below cursor