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Extended NOTES ready for 0.1.
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XXX set-option status,status-fg,status-bg
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Sessions are destroyed when no windows remain attached to them.
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--- XXX cut here XXX above this line is reformatted into man page XXX ----------
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Welcome to tmux!
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tmux is a "terminal multiplexer," it enables a number of terminals (or windows)
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to be accessed and controlled from a single terminal. tmux is intended to be a
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simple, modern, BSD-licensed alternative to programs such as GNU screen.
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This 0.1 release should be considered a beta release. It runs only on OpenBSD,
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has many missing features and is expected to have a good number of bugs.
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tmux consists of a server part and multiple clients. The server is created
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when required and runs continuously unless killed by the user. Clients access
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the server through a socket in /tmp. Multiple sessions may be created on a
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single server and attached to a number of clients. Each session may then
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have a number of windows. Commands are available to create, rename and destroy
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windows and sessions; to attach and detach sessions from client terminals;
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to set configuration options; and to bind and unbind command keys (invoked
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preceded by a prefix key, by default ctrl-b). Please see the tmux(1) man page
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for further information.
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The following is a summary of major features implemented in this version:
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- Basic multiplexing, window switching, attaching and detaching.
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- Window listing and renaming.
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- Key binding.
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- Handling of client terminal resize.
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- Terminal emulation sufficient to handle most curses applications. Without
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known issues are: emacs, irssi, mutt, ncmpc (resize problems are present in
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both tmux and screen), vim and various tools and games in OpenBSD base.
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- A optional status line (enabled by default).
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And major missing features:
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- Support for VT100 line drawing characters (they will appear as jklmx, etc).
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- Status line customisation, beyond presence and colour.
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- Copy and paste.
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- Scrollback.
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- Mouse support.
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A more extensive, but rough, todo list is included in the TODO file.
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tmux also depends on several features of the client terminal (TERM), if these
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are missing it may not behave correctly. It is possible to emulate some of
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these but tmux does not do this at present. Known working are TERM=screen (tmux
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in screen), xterm, xterm-color and rxvt.
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For debugging, running tmux with -v or -vv will generate server and client log
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files in the current directory.
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Bug reports, feature suggestions and especially code contributions (or offers
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to work on code) are most welcome. Please email:
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nicm@users.sf.net
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Or contact me during UK daytime hours (0900 to 1200 UTC or so) as "NicM" on
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freenode or efnet IRC. I sometimes ignore private msgs from people I don't
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know, so please mention tmux initially (rather than just saying "hi" ;-).
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-- Nicholas Marriott <nicm@users.sf.net>
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$Id: NOTES,v 1.18 2007-10-12 17:32:20 nicm Exp $
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