Show HN: Tmux plugin manager

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm

by brunosutic • 11 years ago

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troy44• 11 years ago

This is awesome.

pcthrowaway• 11 years ago

They have similarities, but awesome is a graphical tiling window manager, whereas tmux is only for terminal sessions.

kjs3• 11 years ago

I see what you did there. ;-)

agumonkey• 11 years ago

I was about to make en emacs joke, but I don't feel the need anymore.

smonff• 11 years ago

Tmux inside Awesome <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

tmm• 11 years ago

This is awesome! I've been using tmux for years and didn't even know there were plugins.

KB1JWQ• 11 years ago

Count me in that list! This is fantastic, and is likely to help push me over the edge to using tmux by default on my local workstation.

manish_gill• 11 years ago

Been using it for a while now. Here is my plugin list:

    set -g @tpm_plugins '              \
        tmux-plugins/tpm                 \
        tmux-plugins/tmux-sensible       \
        tmux-plugins/tmux-open           \
        tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect      \
        tmux-plugins/tmux-pain-control   \
        tmux-plugins/tmux-battery        \
        tmux-plugins/tmux-online-status  \

moviuro• 11 years ago

Meh, bash... I'll try and see if it's possible to do it 100% POSIX to port to *BSD without the hassle of installing bash.

brunosutic• 11 years ago

This guy already did that: https://github.com/chilicuil/tundle

TomAnthony3• 11 years ago

Off topic: How do most people on HN use tmux?

I was using it for a while but then realised I never used it over SSH and I rarely disconnected from sessions and opened them again. Are there other people in that camp?

riquito2• 11 years ago

You are a brave man. What if you run a long/important task on the server and you lose the connection (A/C in the building going away, Internet connection outage, etc...)?

TomAnthony3• 11 years ago

I don't think I was clear, sorry. I meant I rarely use it on remote servers, I rarely have the need for that process.

I only have a need to do dev locally and was using tmux on my local machine. I know several other devs who only use tmux in this fashion.

I know many people use it when they are on a remote machine via ssh - what are the usual activities that require someone to be ssh'ed in doing complex tasks directly on a remote machine?

teh_klev• 11 years ago

I use it over SSH all the time. All our kit is in a data centre and once or twice a day my corp VPN client drops out. It's a godsend.

pseudonym• 11 years ago

I use it for just about everything work-related, but given that my day job is literally "connect to sets of remote servers and bang out code" it'd be insane not to. Some of my coworkers still use screen, but tmux + wemux having the automatic "scale to the smallest attached screen" + "automatically follow the driver in pair mode" means there's a lot less "can you shrink your window"/"which window are you in now?" types of interruptions.

Apart from that, I've got a perpetual tmux running on my linode for irssi, and I've also got tmux running locally-- being able to set up multiple sessions connected to the same tmux server means that I can have a different tmux session per physical monitor, which means both a shared tmux copy/paste buffer and the ability to easily flip from window to window depending on what I want on which monitor. Ctrl+B for the local tmux, Ctrl+A for remote tmux means that there's no weird double-control-characters necessary. Add in some sneaky scripts to symlink login SSH agents to a known location that's exported to all tmux sessions for ease of git and you end up with a really clean overall workflow.

niklasni1• 11 years ago

It's basically my window manager. I've one terminal that most stuff gets done in, which runs full screen.

I also use it remotely on a server, but it's just as important locally.

pragone• 11 years ago

I work mostly locally, but I still use tmux. I've found it much easier to use than multiple tabs or windows of iterm, and it's nice to have power line right there on the screen at all times. As others have said, the clipboard functionality is nice as well.

baby• 11 years ago

I read that and realized I had a few tmux session that were running for like 4 months on two servers

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