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At any given time, I'm working on like 10 different projects. tmux lets me set up sessions for each of these projects, so that when I leave one and come back i

At any given time, I'm working on like 10 different projects. tmux lets me set up sessions for each of these projects, so that when I leave one and come back in a week, all the context is there (multiple windows, bash history, working directories I was in, etc) Since I work with big biological data, most of my work takes place on our university cluster, which means my laptop is just a dumb terminal and all of the action takes place on the server. IME, tmux is especially powerful with coupled with mosh, which gives a persistent SSH connection. That means I can be in the middle of a project, close my laptop lid, go home, then later that evening, open my lid and everything is reconnected and just right there. Same if I reboot my laptop - one command to reconnect my terminal with mosh, and I'm back in the middle of my complicated multi-window project.

mipmap04 2y ago
I used to work on CECL and stress testing models for large banks and i used tmux similarly. Lots of scripts that would take like 6 hours to run.
trentnelson 2y ago
What happens when you press page up or down in tmux? Have you configured it to scroll page up & down? Or do you do that via Ctrl-B ] or whatever the magic incantation was?
- necrotic_comp 2y ago
  That's right. You have a prefix that lets you use page up page down in any pane you've got currently selected.
- donio 2y ago
  Not parent but keybindings are fully configurable. For example to scroll up with Shift-Pgup: bind -n S-PPage copy-mode -u bind -T copy-mode S-PPage send -X page-up bind -T copy-mode S-NPage send -X page-down The first line is a top-level binding to enter copy-mode and immediately scroll up one page. The other two add bindings within copy-mode so you can continue to scroll up or down with those keys. I also have a small hack in my .zshrc to start scrolling up with `M-v` (like in Emacs) while at a shell prompt: tmuxup(){tmux copy-mode -u} zle -N tmuxup bindkey '^[v' tmuxup
  - seanhunter 2y ago
    I used to do all of this type of stuff to get my copy-paste to work in tmux but honestly it's still a pita. The alternative I started using recently (zellij[1]) has copy and paste, scrollback, dump scrollback to editor etc just working out of the box with no fancy configuration required and also has a much saner session management mechanic that also works right out of the box. [1] https://zellij.dev/ https://zellij.dev/
- elteto 2y ago
  When I used tmux I used to set Ctrl-PgUp/Down bindings to scroll the buffer.
- flobosg 2y ago
  Ctrl-B PgUp/PgDown enters scroll mode.
- Izkata 2y ago
  > Ctrl-B ] or whatever the magic incantation was This is something tmux inherited from screen, but it from a quick test it looks like they didn't copy the whole thing? You use [ to enter this mode (it's actually for copying text, not just scrolling) and in screen use ] to exit without copying anything. Looks like tmux doesn't have ], at least by default?
flobosg 2y ago
Similar use case here, but in a biotech company.

mipmap04 2y ago

I used to work on CECL and stress testing models for large banks and i used tmux similarly. Lots of scripts that would take like 6 hours to run.

trentnelson 2y ago

What happens when you press page up or down in tmux? Have you configured it to scroll page up & down? Or do you do that via Ctrl-B ] or whatever the magic incantation was?

necrotic_comp 2y ago
That's right. You have a prefix that lets you use page up page down in any pane you've got currently selected.
donio 2y ago
Not parent but keybindings are fully configurable. For example to scroll up with Shift-Pgup: bind -n S-PPage copy-mode -u bind -T copy-mode S-PPage send -X page-up bind -T copy-mode S-NPage send -X page-down The first line is a top-level binding to enter copy-mode and immediately scroll up one page. The other two add bindings within copy-mode so you can continue to scroll up or down with those keys. I also have a small hack in my .zshrc to start scrolling up with `M-v` (like in Emacs) while at a shell prompt: tmuxup(){tmux copy-mode -u} zle -N tmuxup bindkey '^[v' tmuxup
- seanhunter 2y ago
  I used to do all of this type of stuff to get my copy-paste to work in tmux but honestly it's still a pita. The alternative I started using recently (zellij[1]) has copy and paste, scrollback, dump scrollback to editor etc just working out of the box with no fancy configuration required and also has a much saner session management mechanic that also works right out of the box. [1] https://zellij.dev/ https://zellij.dev/
elteto 2y ago
When I used tmux I used to set Ctrl-PgUp/Down bindings to scroll the buffer.
flobosg 2y ago
Ctrl-B PgUp/PgDown enters scroll mode.
Izkata 2y ago
> Ctrl-B ] or whatever the magic incantation was This is something tmux inherited from screen, but it from a quick test it looks like they didn't copy the whole thing? You use [ to enter this mode (it's actually for copying text, not just scrolling) and in screen use ] to exit without copying anything. Looks like tmux doesn't have ], at least by default?

flobosg 2y ago

Similar use case here, but in a biotech company.