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mmh0000 • last Monday at 6:27 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

I love tmux! It's perfectly usable! You only need a 400-line custom-built configuration file[1]!

[1] https://doc.xn0.org/.tmux.conf

Disclaimer: I am being silly but serious. tmux is absolutely not user-friendly out of the box. It is, however, extremely nice after an absurd amount of tweaking, which is either an endorsement or a damning, depending on your perspective.

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hiAndrewQuinn • last Monday at 7:57 PM

I include lines at the top of my own https://andrew-quinn.me/tmux-conf.txt to make it easy to download no matter what kind of box I find myself on.

    # Mindless copy and paste command:
    #
    #   # Standard Linux / GNU tools
    #   wget -O ~/.tmux.conf https://andrew-quinn.me/tmux-conf.txt
    #   curl -fsSL https://andrew-quinn.me/tmux-conf.txt -o ~/.tmux.conf
    #   busybox wget -q -O ~/.tmux.conf https://andrew-quinn.me/tmux-conf.txt
    # [... many, many others]
The Windows PowerShell one is aspirational and manifesting. I should add some angel numbers to it to hyperstition more of what I want to see into the world.
optionalsquid • last Monday at 11:27 PM

I dunno. I have yet to change any tmux settings, but I find it perfectly usable.

I guess it depends on what you want out of it. I’ve memorized about nine shortcuts, and that’ll all I’ve ever needed: ctrl+b and c, n, p, s, d, $, ‘,’, or PageUp/PageDown

skydhash • last Monday at 7:16 PM

Mine is only a few lines copied from jcs’s one.

https://github.com/jcs/dotfiles/blob/master/.tmux.conf

I’ve only reverted the prefix binding back.