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Re:Awesome Tmux by bpchaps on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @01:25AM (#17906833)
I've used tmux on a daily basis for about four years and have no idea what -t or -s do. My workflow is from a single machine, where I don't need to have multiple sessions - just different windows. For any remote sessions, I just use screen. Doing so has the added benefit of not conflicting with others' workflows, which are likely screen-bound.

tmux's defaults are pretty much universally thought of as awful. Change ctrl-b fo ctrl-a and find some plugins that you like. Also, consider swapping Ctrl and capslock!

My conf: https://github.com/red-bin/dotfiles/blob/master/tmux.conf

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Re:Awesome Tmux by pulsarpietro on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @06:15AM (#17907930)
Actually I use it in place of screen. I always thought of it as "a better screen"
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Re:Awesome Tmux by bpchaps on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @03:47PM (#17912200)
It definitely is! Though, I've found not enough people know it well enough to make it useful in any distubutrd environment, since it just confuses everyone who's already used screen. And it gets worse because everyone who knows tmux has their own config and workflows. So it's kind of a lose-lose.

Screen also has some much better defaults.

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