> trying to get the mouse working is a bloody nightmare and it regularly borks the terminal
It's literally one line of config.
> It’s the arcane shortcuts and the weird way it seems to handle most things
Tmux is a TUI and the shell and other software running on it are themselves TUI. There will be conflict and the prefix solution is actually simple. Tmux solves one particular problem and solves it well. It's on you if you want it to be something else.
Re:Tmux is worse-is-better
by usrbinbash on Sunday May 26, 2024 @12:12PM
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> It’s the arcane shortcuts
All of which can be configured.
It’s not only the config, though. It’s the arcane shortcuts and the weird way it seems to handle most things (trying to get the mouse working is a bloody nightmare and it regularly borks the terminal). I have a mouse with a scrolling wheel, for example. It works fine with most programs over ssh, why is it such a pain with tmux? Such pains remain even after having felt down the rabbit hole and spent 2 weeks tweaking settings.
iTerm2 is fantastic and I would be very happy to just use it and call the problem solved, but I don’t have a Mac at work.