Exploring tmux: Customizing and Enhancing Terminal Multiplexing
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EPendragon
A baker's-dozen of insight crammed into one ring.
Summary
The article explores the customization and usability of tmux, a terminal multiplexer, inspired by the advocacy of tools like tmux by Primeagen. It explains tmux's functionality, allowing multiple terminal programs to run within a single terminal, and highlights its benefits for users seeking efficient terminal management.
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Each program inside tmux gets its own terminal managed by tmux, which can be accessed from the single terminal where tmux is running - this called multiplexing and tmux is a terminal multiplexer.
I have been exploring some new tools here and there. When I started watching Primeagen, I took a note of several tools that he was using and advocating for. One of them was tmux.
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