ITerm2 is now integrated with tmux terminal multiplexer

Re:ITerm2 is now integrated with tmux terminal multiplexer by sgentle on Sunday January 22, 2012 @11:19PM (#3499020)

This is pretty cool, but definitely rough around the edges. When you tmux -C it uses your current iTerm2 window as a control window, then opens a new one for all of your tmux tabs. So I now have two windows instead of one per server. It'd be nice to have better UI for that.

Speaking of per server, it's only possible to map one tmux session per instance of iTerm2, which is a shame because I have a few.

There is also a special shortcut for new tab (cmd+shift+ctrl+RSI+t) rather than being transparent and just using the native key. I can't imagine I'll ever want to make a new local tab in the middle of a bunch of remote tabs.

Other than that, though, it works great and server-side installation was easy enough (get the tarball, apt-get build-dep tmux && ./configure && make && checkinstall). I've been eagerly awaiting this functionality for ages, and it's nice to see it finally happening.

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Re:ITerm2 is now integrated with tmux terminal multiplexer by gnachman on Monday January 23, 2012 @01:23AM (#3499337)

This is really valuable feedback. Consider this the minimum viable integration. I'm going to iterate on the UI and bug fixes for the next few releases. After it's really stable I'll add support for multiple connections.

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Re:ITerm2 is now integrated with tmux terminal multiplexer by sgentle on Monday January 23, 2012 @01:32AM (#3499354)

No worries, and thanks for all your hard work.

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Re:ITerm2 is now integrated with tmux terminal multiplexer by __david__ on Monday January 23, 2012 @03:43AM (#3499601)

> I can't imagine I'll ever want to make a new local tab in the middle of a bunch of remote tabs.

That's an interesting issue. I'd like to be able to, though I'd expect to use the normal tmux keys to create the remote tab--maybe that's too much to ask for.

I generally want only one window with a bunch of tabs on it. It would be nice it the tabs could be colored someway (subtly) so that I could tell which were local and which were connected to which servers.

I'm very excited about this--I hope the tmux patches get into the mainstream tmux code at some point. I haven't built the custom tmux on my server yet since I'm not sure I can use the new binary to attach to an already running tmux and I have too much state in my current one to restart. ;-)

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Re:ITerm2 is now integrated with tmux terminal multiplexer by pyre on Monday January 23, 2012 @03:20AM (#3499556)

  > I've been eagerly awaiting this functionality
  > for ages, and it's nice to see it finally
  > happening.

A few years ago there was a patch to GNOME Terminal that added similar integration with GNU Screen. The patch is probably too old to work at this point, and I generally prefer tmux to screen, but I thought that it might be worth mentioning.

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Re:ITerm2 is now integrated with tmux terminal multiplexer by joh6nn on Monday January 23, 2012 @01:40PM (#3501515)

as a screen user who has yet to experiment with tmux, can you elaborate on what it is about tmux that you prefer?

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Re:ITerm2 is now integrated with tmux terminal multiplexer by leif on Monday January 23, 2012 @02:54PM (#3501827)

emacs bindings in copy mode is nice (and there are vi bindings if you're a heretic)

split screen functionality in tmux is annoying but I hardly use it

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