CHANGES FROM 3.1 TO 3.2 * Change double and triple click bindings so that only one is fired (previously double click was fired on the way to triple click). Also add default double and triple click binding to copy the word or line under the cursor and change the existing bindings in copy mode to do the same. * Add -d flag to run-shell to delay before running the command and allow it to run without a command so it just delays. * Add C-g to cancel command prompt with vi(1) keys as well as emacs, and q in command mode. * When the server socket is given with -S, create it with umask 177 instead of 117 (because it may not be in a safe directory like the default directory in /tmp). * Add a copy-mode -H flag to hide the position marker in the top right. * Add number operators for formats (+, -, *, / and m), CHANGES FROM 3.0a TO 3.1 * Add selection_active format for when the selection is present but not moving with the cursor. * Fix dragging with modifier keys, so binding keys such as C-MouseDrag1Pane and C-MouseDragEnd1Pane now work. * Add -a to list-keys to also list keys without notes with -N. * Do not jump to next word end if already on a word end when selecting a word; fixes select-word with single character words and vi(1) keys. * Fix top and bottom pane calculation with pane border status enabled. * Add support for adding a note to a key binding (with bind-key -N) and use this to add descriptions to the default key bindings. A new -N flag to list-keys shows key bindings with notes. Change the default ? binding to use this to show a readable summary of keys. Also extend command-prompt to return the name of the key pressed and add a default binding (/) to show the note for the next key pressed. * Add support for the iTerm2 DSR 1337 sequence to get the terminal version. * Treat plausible but invalid keys (like C-BSpace) as literal like any other unrecognised string passed to send-keys. * Detect iTerm2 and enable use of DECSLRM (much faster with horizontally split windows). * Add -Z to default switch-client command in tree mode. * Add ~ to quoted characters for %%%. * Document client exit messages in the manual page. * Do not let read-only clients limit the size, unless all clients are read-only. * Add a number of new formats to inspect what sessions and clients a window is present or active in. * Change file reading and writing to go through the client if necessary. This fixes commands like "tmux loadb /dev/fd/X". Also modify source-file to support "-" for standard input, like load-buffer and save-buffer. * Add ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf to the default search path for configuration files. * Bump the escape sequence timeout to five seconds to allow for longer legitimate sequences. * Make a best effort to set xpixel and ypixel for each pane and add formats for them. * Add push-default to status-left and status-right in status-format[0]. * Do not clear search marks on cursor movement with vi(1) keys. * Add p format modifier for padding to width and allow multiple substitutions in a single format. * Add -f for full size to join-pane (like split-window). * Do not use bright when emulating 256 colours on an 8 colour terminal because it is also bold on some terminals. * Make select-pane -P set window-active-style also to match previous behaviour. * Do not truncate list-keys output. * Turn automatic-rename back on if the \033k rename escape sequence is used with an empty name. * Add support for percentage sizes for resize-pane ("-x 10%"). Also change split-window and join-pane -l to accept similar percentages and deprecate the -p flag. * Add -F flag to send-keys to expand formats in search-backward and forward copy mode commands and copy_cursor_word and copy_cursor_line formats for word and line at cursor in copy mode. Use for default # and * binding with vi(1) keys. * Add formats for word and line at cursor position in copy mode. * Add formats for cursor and selection position in copy mode. * Support all the forms of RGB colour strings in OSC sequences rather than requiring two digits. * Limit lazy resize to panes in attached sessions only. * Add an option to set the key sent by backspace for those whose system uses ^H rather than ^?. * Change new-session -A without a session name (that is, no -s option also) to attach to the best existing session like attach-session rather than a new one. * Add a "latest" window-size option which tries to size windows based on the most recently used client. This is now the default. * Add simple support for OSC 7 (result is available in the pane_path format). * Add push-default and pop-default for styles which change the colours and attributes used for #[default]. These are used in status-format to restore the behaviour of window-status-style being the default for window-status-format. * Add window_marked_flag. * Add cursor-down-and-cancel in copy mode. * Default to previous search string for search-forward and search-backward. * Add -Z flag to rotate-window, select-pane, swap-pane, switch-client to preserve zoomed state. * Add -N to capture-pane to preserve trailing spaces. * Add reverse sorting in tree, client and buffer modes. CHANGES FROM 3.0 TO 3.0a * Do not require REG_STARTEND. * Respawn panes or windows correctly if default-command is set. * Add missing option for after-kill-pane hook. * Fix for crash with a format variable that doesn't exist. * Do not truncate list-keys output on some platforms. * Do not crash when restoring a layout with only one pane. CHANGES FROM 2.9 TO 3.0 * Workaround invalid layout strings generated by older tmux versions and add some additional sanity checks * xterm 348 now disables margins when resized, so send DECLRMM again after resize. * Add support for the SD (scroll down) escape sequence. * Expand arguments to C and s format modifiers to match the m modifier. * Add support for underscore colours (Setulc capability must be added with terminal-overrides as described in tmux(1)). * Add a "fill" style attribute for the fill colour of the drawing area (where appropriate). * New -H flag to send-keys to send literal keys. * Format variables for pane mouse modes (mouse_utf8_flag and mouse_sgr_flag) and for origin mode (origin_flag). * Add -F to refresh-client for flags for control mode clients, only one flag (no-output) supported at the moment. * Add a few vi(1) keys for menus. * Add pane options, set with set-option -p and displayed with show-options -p. Pane options inherit from window options (so every pane option is also a window option). The pane style is now configured by setting window-style and window-active-style in the pane options; select-pane -P and -g now change the option but are no longer documented. * Do not document set-window-option and show-window-options. set-option -w and show-options -w should be used instead. * Add a -A flag to show-options to show parent options as well (they are marked with a *). * Resize panes lazily - do not resize unless they are in an attached, active window. * Add regular expression support for the format search, match and substitute modifiers and make them able to ignore case. find-window now accepts -r to use regular expressions. * Do not use $TMUX to find the session because for windows in multiple sessions it is wrong as often as it is right, and for windows in one session it is pointless. Instead use TMUX_PANE if it is present. * Do not always resize the window back to its original size after applying a layout, keep it at the layout size until it must be resized (for example when attached and window-size is not manual). * Add new-session -X and attach-session -x to send SIGHUP to parent when detaching (like detach-client -P). * Support for octal escapes in strings (such as \007) and improve list-keys output so it parses correctly if copied into a configuration file. * INCOMPATIBLE: Add a new {} syntax to the configuration file. This is a string similar to single quotes but also includes newlines and allows commands that take other commands as string arguments to be expressed more clearly and without additional escaping. A literal { and } or a string containing { or } must now be escaped or quoted, for example '{' and '}' instead of { or }, or 'X#{foo}' instead of X#{foo}. * New <, >, <= and >= comparison operators for formats. * Improve escaping of special characters in list-keys output. * INCOMPATIBLE: tmux's configuration parsing has changed to use yacc(1). There is one incompatible change: a \ on its own must be escaped or quoted as either \\ or '\' (the latter works on older tmux versions). Entirely the same parser is now used for parsing the configuration file and for string commands. This means that constructs previously only available in .tmux.conf, such as %if, can now be used in string commands (for example, those given to if-shell - not commands invoked from the shell, they are still parsed by the shell itself). * Add support for the overline attribute (SGR 53). The Smol capability is needed in terminal-overrides. * Add the ability to create simple menus. Introduces new command display-menu. Default menus are bound to MouseDown3 on the status line; MouseDown3 or M-MouseDown3 on panes; MouseDown3 in tree, client and buffer modes; and C-b < and >. * Allow panes to be empty (no command). They can be created either by piping to split-window -I, or by passing an empty command ('') to split-window. Output can be sent to an existing empty window with display-message -I. * Add keys to jump between matching brackets (emacs C-M-f and C-M-b, vi %). * Add a -e flag to new-window, split-window, respawn-window, respawn-pane to pass environment variables into the newly created process. * Hooks are now stored in the options tree as array options, allowing them to have multiple separate commands. set-hook and show-hooks remain but set-option and show-options can now also be used (show-options will only show hooks if given the -H flag). Hooks with multiple commands are run in index order. * Automatically scroll if dragging to create a selection with the mouse and the cursor reaches the top or bottom line. * Add -no-clear variants of copy-selection and copy-pipe which do not clear the selection after copying. Make copy-pipe clear the selection by default to be consistent with copy-selection. * Add an argument to copy commands to set the prefix for the buffer name, this (for example) allows buffers for different sessions to be named separately. * Update session activity on focus event. * Pass target from source-file into the config file parser so formats in %if and %endif have access to more useful variables. * Add the ability to infer an option type (server, session, window) from its name to show-options (it was already present in set-option). CHANGES FROM 2.9 TO 2.9a * Fix bugs in select-pane and the main-horizontal and main-vertical layouts. CHANGES FROM 2.8 TO 2.9 * Attempt to preserve horizontal cursor position as well as vertical with reflow. * Rewrite main-vertical and horizontal and change layouts to better handle the case where all panes won't fit into the window size, reduce problems with pane border status lines and fix other bugs mostly found by Thomas Sattler. * Add format variables for the default formats in the various modes (tree_mode_format and so on) and add a -a flag to display-message to list variables with values. * Add a -v flag to display-message to show verbose messages as the format is parsed, this allows formats to be debugged * Add support for HPA (\033[`). * Add support for origin mode (\033[?6h). * No longer clear history on RIS. * Extend the #[] style syntax and use that together with previous format changes to allow the status line to be entirely configured with a single option. Now that it is possible to configure their content, enable the existing code that lets the status line be multiple lines in height. The status option can now take a value of 2, 3, 4 or 5 (as well as the previous on or off) to configure more than one line. The new status-format array option configures the format of each line, the default just references the existing status-* options, although some of the more obscure status options may be eliminated in time. Additions to the #[] syntax are: "align" to specify alignment (left, centre, right), "list" for the window list and "range" to configure ranges of text for the mouse bindings. The "align" keyword can also be used to specify alignment of entries in tree mode and the pane status lines. * Add E: and T: format modifiers to expand a format twice (useful to expand the value of an option). * The individual -fg, -bg and -attr options have been removed; they were superseded by -style options in tmux 1.9. * Allow more than one mode to be opened in a pane. Modes are kept on a stack and retrieved if the same mode is entered again. Exiting the active mode goes back to the previous one. * When showing command output in copy mode, call it view mode instead (affects pane_mode format). * Add -b to display-panes like run-shell. * Handle UTF-8 in word-separators option. * New "terminal" colour allowing options to use the terminal default colour rather than inheriting the default from a parent option. * Do not move the cursor in copy mode when the mouse wheel is used. * Use the same working directory rules for jobs as new windows rather than always starting in the user's home. * Allow panes to be one line or column in size. * Go to last line when goto-line number is out of range in copy mode. * Yank previously cut text if any with C-y in the command prompt, only use the buffer if no text has been cut. * Add q: format modifier to quote shell special characters. * Add StatusLeft and StatusRight mouse locations (keys such as MouseDown1StatusLeft) for the status-left and status-right areas of the status line. * Add -Z to find-window. * Support for windows larger than the client. This adds two new options, window-size and default-size, and a new command, resize-window. The force-width and force-height options and the session_width and session_height formats have been removed. The new window-size option tells tmux how to work out the size of windows: largest means it picks the size of the largest session, smallest the smallest session (similar to the old behaviour) and manual means that it does not automatically resize windows. aggressive-resize modifies the choice of session for largest and smallest as it did before. If a window is in a session attached to a client that is too small, only part of the window is shown. tmux attempts to keep the cursor visible, so the part of the window displayed is changed as the cursor moves (with a small delay, to try and avoid excess redrawing when applications redraw status lines or similar that are not currently visible). Drawing windows which are larger than the client is not as efficient as those which fit, particularly when the cursor moves, so it is recommended to avoid using this on slow machines or networks (set window-size to smallest or manual). The resize-window command can be used to resize a window manually. If it is used, the window-size option is automatically set to manual for the window (undo this with "setw -u window-size"). resize-window works in a similar way to resize-pane (-U -D -L -R -x -y flags) but also has -a and -A flags. -a sets the window to the size of the smallest client (what it would be if window-size was smallest) and -A the largest. For the same behaviour as force-width or force-height, use resize-window -x or -y. If the global window-size option is set to manual, the default-size option is used for new windows. If -x or -y is used with new-session, that sets the default-size option for the new session. The maximum size of a window is 10000x10000. But expect applications to complain and higher memory use if making a window that big. The minimum size is the size required for the current layout including borders. The refresh-client command can be used to pan around a window, -U -D -L -R moves up, down, left or right and -c returns to automatic cursor tracking. The position is reset when the current window is changed. CHANGES FROM 2.7 TO 2.8 * Make display-panes block the client until a pane is chosen or it times out. * Clear history on RIS like most other terminals do. * Add an "Any" key to run a command if a key is pressed that is not bound in the current key table. * Expand formats in load-buffer and save-buffer. * Add a rectangle_toggle format. * Add set-hook -R to run a hook immediately. * Add README.ja. * Add pane focus hooks. * Allow any punctuation as separator for s/x/y not only /. * Improve resizing with the mouse (fix resizing the wrong pane in some layouts, and allow resizing multiple panes at the same time). * Allow , and } to be escaped in formats as #, and #}. * Add KRB5CCNAME to update-environment. * Change meaning of -c to display-message so the client is used if it matches the session given to -t. * Fixes to : form of SGR. * Add x and X to choose-tree to kill sessions, windows or panes. CHANGES FROM 2.6 TO 2.7 * Remove EVENT_* variables from environment on platforms where tmux uses them so they do not pass on to panes. * Fixes for hooks at server exit. * Remove SGR 10 (was equivalent to SGR 0 but no other terminal seems to do this). * Expand formats in window and session names. * Add -Z flag to choose-tree, choose-client, choose-buffer to automatically zoom the pane when the mode is entered and unzoom when it exits, assuming the pane is not already zoomed. This is now part of the default key bindings. * Add C-g to exit modes with emacs keys. * Add exit-empty option to exit server if no sessions (defaults to on). * Show if a filter is present in choose modes. * Add pipe-pane -I to to connect stdin of the child process. * Performance improvements for reflow. * Use RGB terminfo(5) capability to detect RGB colour terminals (the existing Tc extension remains unchanged). * Support for ISO colon-separated SGR sequences. * Add select-layout -E to spread panes out evenly (bound to E key). * Support wide characters properly when reflowing. * Pass PWD to new panes as a hint to shells, as well as calling chdir(). * Performance improvements for the various choose modes. * Only show first member of session groups in tree mode (-G flag to choose-tree to show all). * Support %else in config files to match %if; from Brad Town in GitHub issue 1071. * Fix "kind" terminfo(5) capability to be S-Down not S-Up. * Add a box around the preview label in tree mode. * Show exit status and time in the remain-on-exit pane text; from Timo Boettcher in GitHub issue 1103. * Correctly use pane-base-index in tree mode. * Change the allow-rename option default to off. * Support for xterm(1) title stack escape sequences (GitHub issue 1075 from Brad Town). * Correctly remove padding cells to fix a UTF-8 display problem (GitHub issue 1090). CHANGES FROM 2.5 TO 2.6, 05 October 2017 * Add select-pane -T to set pane title. * Fix memory leak when lines with BCE are removed from history. * Fix (again) the "prefer unattached" behaviour of attach-session. * Reorder how keys are checked to allow keys to be specified that have a leading escape. GitHub issue 1048. * Support REP escape sequence (\033[b). * Run alert hooks based on options rather than always, and allow further bells even if there is an existing bell. * Add -d flag to display-panes to override display-panes-time. * Add selection_present format when in copy mode (allows key bindings that do something different if there is a selection). * Add pane_at_left, pane_at_right, pane_at_top and pane_at_bottom formats. * Make bell, activity and silence alerting more consistent by: removing the bell-on-alert option; adding activity-action and silence-action options with the same possible values as the existing bell-action; adding a "both" value for the visual-bell, visual-activity and visual-silence options to trigger both a bell and a message. * Add a pane_pipe format to show if pipe-pane is active. * Block signals between forking and resetting signal handlers so that the libevent signal handler doesn't get called in the child and incorrectly write into the signal pipe that it still shares with the parent. GitHub issue 1001. * Allow punctuation in pane_current_command. * Add -c for respawn-pane and respawn-window. * Wait for any remaining data to flush when a pane is closed while pipe-pane is in use. * Fix working out current client with no target. GitHub issue 995. * Try to fallback to C.UTF-8 as well as en_US.UTF-8 when looking for a UTF-8 locale. * Add user-keys option for user-defined key escape sequences (mapped to User0 to User999 keys). * Add pane-set-clipboard hook. * FAQ file has moved out of repository to online. * Fix problem with high CPU usage when a client dies unexpectedly. GitHub issue 941. * Do a dance on OS X 10.10 and above to return tmux to the user namespace, allowing access to the clipboard. * Do not allow escape sequences which expect a specific terminator (APC, DSC, OSC) to wait for forever - use a small timeout. This reduces the chance of the pane locking up completely when sent garbage (cat /dev/random or similar). * Support SIGUSR2 to toggle logging on a running server, also generate the "out" log file with -vv not -vvvv. * Make set-clipboard a three state option: on (tmux both sends to outside terminal and accepts from applications inside); external (tmux sends outside but does not accept inside); and off. * Fix OSC 4 palette setting for bright foreground colours. GitHub issue 954. * Use setrgbf and setrgbb terminfo(5) capabilities to set RGB colours, if they are available. (Tc is still supported as well.) * Fix redrawing panes when they are resized several times but end up with the size unchanged (for example, splitw/resizep -Z/breakp). * Major rewrite of choose mode. Now includes preview, sorting, searching and tagging; commands that can be executed directly from the mode (for example, to delete one or more buffers); and filtering in tree mode. * choose-window and choose-session are now aliases of choose-tree (in the command-alias option). * Support OSC 10 and OSC 11 to set foreground and background colours. * Check the U8 capability to determine whether to use UTF-8 line drawing characters for ACS. * Some missing notifications for layout changes. * Control mode clients now do not affect session sizes until they issue refresh-client -C. new-session -x and -y works with control clients even if the session is not detached. * All new sessions that are unattached (whether with -d or started with no terminal) are now created with size 80 x 24. Whether the status line is on or off does not affect the size of new sessions until they are attached. * Expand formats in option names and add -F flag to expand them in option values. * Remember the search string for a pane even if copy mode is exited and entered again. * Some further BCE fixes (scroll up, reverse index). * Improvements to how terminals are cleared (entirely or partially). CHANGES FROM 2.4 TO 2.5, 09 May 2017 * Reset updated flag when restarting #() command so that new output is properly recognised. GitHub issue 922. * Fix ECH with a background colour. * Do not rely on the terminal not moving the cursor after DL or EL. * Fix send-keys and send-prefix in copy-mode (so C-b C-b works). GitHub issue 905. * Set the current pane for rotate-window so it works in command sequences. * Add pane_mode format. * Differentiate M-Up from Escape+Up when possible (that is, in terminals with xterm(1) style function keys). GitHub issue 907. * Add session_stack and window_stack_index formats. * Some new control mode notifications and corresponding hooks: pane-mode-changed, window-pane-changed, client-session-changed, session-window-changed. * Format pane_search_string for last search term while in copy mode (useful with command-prompt -I). * Fix a problem with high CPU usage and multiple clients with #(). GitHub issue 889. * Fix UTF-8 combining characters in column 0. * Fix reference counting so that panes are properly destroyed and their processes killed. * Clamp SU (CSI S) parameter to work around a bug in Konsole. * Tweak line wrapping in full width panes to play more nicely with terminal copy and paste. * Fix when we emit SGR 0 in capture-pane -e. * Do not change TERM until after config file parsing has finished, so that commands run inside the config file can use it to make decisions (typically about default-terminal). * Make the initial client wait until config file parsing has finished to avoid racing with commands. * Fix core when if-shell fails. * Only use ED to clear screen if the pane is at the bottom. * Fix multibyte UTF-8 output. * Code improvements around target (-t) resolution. * Change how the default target (for commands without -t) is managed across command sequences: now it is set up at the start and commands are required to update it if needed. Fixes binding command sequences to mouse keys. * Make if-shell from the config file work correctly. * Change to always check the root key table if no binding is found in the current table (prefix table or copy-mode table or whatever). This means that root key bindings will take effect even in copy mode, if not overridden by a copy mode key binding. * Fix so that the history file works again. * Run config file without a client rather than using the first client, restores previous behaviour. * If a #() command doesn't exit, continue to read from it and use its last full line of output. * Handle slow terminals and fast output better: when the amount of data outstanding gets too large, discard output until it is drained and we are able to do a full redraw. Prevents tmux sitting on a huge buffer that the terminal will take forever to consume. * Do not redraw a client unless we realistically think it can accept the data - defer redraws until the client has nothing else waiting to write. CHANGES FROM 2.3 TO 2.4, 20 April 2017 Incompatible Changes ==================== * Key tables have undergone major changes. Mode key tables are no longer separate from the main key tables. All mode key tables have been removed, together with the -t flag to bind-key and unbind-key. The emacs-edit, vi-edit, emacs-choose and vi-choose tables have been replaced by fixed key bindings in the command prompt and choose modes. The mode-keys and status-keys options remain. The emacs-copy and vi-copy tables have been replaced by the copy-mode and copy-mode-vi tables. Commands are sent using the -X and -N flags to send-keys. So the following: bind -temacs-copy C-Up scroll-up bind -temacs-copy -R5 WheelUpPane scroll-up Becomes: bind -Tcopy-mode C-Up send -X scroll-up bind -Tcopy-mode WheelUpPane send -N5 -X scroll-up These changes allows the full command parser (including command sequences) and command set to be used - for example, the normal command prompt with editing and history is now used for searching, jumping, and so on instead of a custom one. The default C-r binding is now: bind -Tcopy-mode C-r command-prompt -i -p'search up' "send -X search-backward-incremental '%%'" There are also some new commmands available with send -X, such as copy-pipe-and-cancel. * set-remain-on-exit has gone -- can be achieved with hooks instead. * Hooks: before hooks have been removed and only a selection of commands now have after hooks (they are no longer automatic). Additional hooks have been added. * The xterm-keys option now defaults to on. Normal Changes ============== * Support for mouse double and triple clicks. * BCE (Background Colour Erase) is now supported. * All occurrences of a search string in copy mode are now highlighted; additionally, the number of search results is displayed. The highlighting updates interactively with the default emacs key bindings (incremental search). * source-file now understands glob patterns. * Formats now have simple comparisons: #{==:a,b} #{!=:a,b} * There are the following new formats: - #{version} -- the tmux server version; - #{client_termtype} -- the terminal type of the client; - #{client_name} -- the name of a client; - #{client_written} -- the number of bytes written to the client. * The configuration file now accepts %if/%endif conditional blocks which are processed when it is parsed; the argument is a format string (useful with the new format comparison options). * detach-client now has -E to execute a command replacing the client instead of exiting. * Add support for custom command aliases, this is an array option which contains items of the form "alias=command". This is consulted when an unknown command is parsed. * break-pane now has -n to specify the new window name. * OSC 52 support has been added for programs inside tmux to set a tmux buffer. * The mouse "all event" mode (1003) is now supported. * Palette setting is now possible (OSC 4 and 104). * Strikethrough support (a recent terminfo is required). * Grouped sessions can now be named (new -t). * terminal-overrides and update-environment are now array options (the previous set -ag syntax should work without change). * There have been substantial performance improvements. CHANGES FROM 2.2 TO 2.3, 29 September 2016 Incompatible Changes ==================== None. Normal Changes ============== * New option 'pane-border-status' to add text in the pane borders. * Support for hooks on commands: 'after' and 'before' hooks. * 'source-file' understands '-q' to suppress errors for nonexistent files. * Lots of UTF8 improvements, especially on MacOS. * 'window-status-separator' understands #[] expansions. * 'split-window' understands '-f' for performing a full-width split. * Allow report count to be specified when using 'bind-key -R'. * 'set -a' for appending to user options (@foo) is now supported. * 'display-panes' can now accept a command to run, rather than always selecting the pane. CHANGES FROM 2.1 TO 2.2, 10 April 2016 Incompatible Changes ==================== * The format strings which referenced time have been removed. Instead: #{t:window_activity} can be used. * Support for TMPDIR has been removed. Use TMUX_TMPDIR instead. * UTF8 detection now happens automatically if the client supports it, hence the: mouse-utf8 utf8 options has been removed. * The: mouse_utf8_flag format string has been removed. * The -I option to show-messages has been removed. See: #{t:start_time} format option instead. Normal Changes ============== * Panes are unzoomed with selectp -LRUD * New formats added: #{scroll_position} #{socket_path} #{=10:...} -- limit to N characters (from the start) #{=-10:...} -- limit to N characters (from the end) #{t:...} -- used to format time-based formats #{b:...} -- used to ascertain basename from string #{d:...} -- used to ascertain dirname from string #{s:...} -- used to perform substitutions on a string * Job output is run via the format system, so formats work again * If display-time is set to 0, then the indicators wait for a key to be pressed. * list-keys and list-commands can be run without starting the tmux server. * kill-session learns -C to clear all alerts in all windows of the session. * Support for hooks (internal for now), but hooks for the following have been implemented: alert-bell alert-silence alert-activity client-attached client-detached client-resized pane-died pane-exited * RGB (24bit) colour support. The 'Tc' flag must be set in the external TERM entry (using terminal-overrides or a custom terminfo entry). CHANGES FROM 2.0 TO 2.1, 18 October 2015 Incompatible Changes ==================== * Mouse-mode has been rewritten. There's now no longer options for: - mouse-resize-pane - mouse-select-pane - mouse-select-window - mode-mouse Instead there is just one option: 'mouse' which turns on mouse support entirely. * 'default-terminal' is now a session option. Furthermore, if this is set to 'screen-*' then emulate what screen does. If italics are wanted, this can be set to 'tmux' but this is still new and not necessarily supported on all platforms with older ncurses installs. * The c0-* options for rate-limiting have been removed. Instead, a backoff approach is used. Normal Changes ============== * New formats: - session_activity - window_linked - window_activity_format - session_alerts - session_last_attached - client_pid - pid * 'copy-selection', 'append-selection', 'start-named-buffer' now understand an '-x' flag to prevent it exiting copying mode. * 'select-pane' now understands '-P' to set window/pane background colours. * 'renumber-windows' now understands windows which are unlinked. * 'bind' now understands multiple key tables. Allows for key-chaining. * 'select-layout' understands '-o' to undo the last layout change. * The environment is updated when switching sessions as well as attaching. * 'select-pane' now understands '-M' for marking a pane. This marked pane can then be used with commands which understand src-pane specifiers automatically. * If a session/window target is prefixed with '=' then only an exact match is considered. * 'move-window' understands '-a'. * 'update-environment' understands '-E' when attach-session is used on an already attached client. * 'show-environment' understands '-s' to output Bourne-compatible commands. * New option: 'history-file' to save/restore command prompt history. * Copy mode is exited if the history is cleared whilst in copy-mode. * 'copy-mode' learned '-e' to exit copy-mode when scrolling to end. CHANGES FROM 1.9a TO 2.0, 06 March 2015 Incompatible Changes ==================== * The choose-list command has been removed. * 'terminal-overrides' is now a server option, not a session option. * 'message-limit' is now a server option, not a session option. * 'monitor-content' option has been removed. * 'pane_start_path' option has been removed. * The "info" mechanism which used to (for some commands) provide feedback has been removed, and like other commands, they now produce nothing on success. Normal Changes ============== * tmux can now write an entry to utmp if the library 'utempter' is present at compile time. * set-buffer learned append mode (-a), and a corresponding 'append-selection' command has been added to copy-mode. * choose-mode now has the following commands which can be bound: - start-of-list - end-of-list - top-line - bottom-line * choose-buffer now understands UTF-8. * Pane navigation has changed: - The old way of always using the top or left if the choice is ambiguous. - The new way of remembering the last used pane is annoying if the layout is balanced and the leftmost is obvious to the user (because clearly if we go right from the top-left in a tiled set of four we want to end up in top-right, even if we were last using the bottom-right). So instead, use a combination of both: if there is only one possible pane alongside the current pane, move to it, otherwise choose the most recently used of the choice. * 'set-buffer' can now be told to give names to buffers. * The 'new-session', 'new-window', 'split-window', and 'respawn-pane' commands now understand multiple arguments and handle quoting problems correctly. * 'capture-pane' understands '-S-' to mean the start of the pane, and '-E-' to mean the end of the pane. * Support for function keys beyond F12 has changed. The following explains: - F13-F24 are S-F1 to S-F12 - F25-F36 are C-F1 to C-F12 - F37-F48 are C-S-F1 to C-S-F12 - F49-F60 are M-F1 to M-F12 - F61-F63 are M-S-F1 to M-S-F3 Therefore, F13 becomes a binding of S-F1, etc. * Support using pane id as part of session or window specifier (so % means session-of-%1 or window-of-%1) and window id as part of session (so @1 means session-of-@1). * 'copy-pipe' command now understands formats via -F * 'if-shell' command now understands formats via -F * 'split-window' and 'join-window' understand -b to create the pane to the left or above the target pane. CHANGES FROM 1.9 TO 1.9a, 22 February 2014 NOTE: This is a bug-fix release to address some important bugs which just missed the 1.9 deadline, but were found afterwards. Normal Changes ============== * Fix crash due to uninitialized lastwp member of layout_cell * Fix -fg/-bg/-style with 256 colour terminals. CHANGES FROM 1.8 TO 1.9, 20 February 2014 NOTE: This release has bumped the tmux protocol version. It is therefore advised that the prior tmux server is restarted when this version of tmux is installed, to avoid protocol mismatch errors for newer clients trying to talk to an older running tmux server. Incompatible Changes ==================== * 88 colour support has been removed. * 'default-path' has been removed. The new-window command accepts '-c' to cater for this. The previous value of "." can be replaced with: 'neww -c $PWD', the previous value of '' which meant current path of the pane can be specified as: 'neww -c "#{pane_current_path}"' Deprecated Changes ================== * The single format specifiers: #A -> #Z (where defined) have been deprecated and replaced with longer-named equivalents, as listed in the FORMATS section of the tmux manpage. * The various foo-{fg,bg,attr} commands have been deprecated and replaced with equivalent foo-style option instead. Currently this is still backwards-compatible, but will be removed over time. Normal Changes ============== * A new environment variable TMUX_TMPDIR is now honoured, allowing the socket directory to be set outside of TMPDIR (/tmp/ if not set). * If -s not given to swap-pane the current pane is assumed. * A #{pane_synchronized} format specifier has been added to be a conditional format if a pane is in a synchronised mode (c.f. synchronize-panes) * Tmux now runs under Cygwin natively. * Formats can now be nested within each other and expanded accordingly. * Added 'automatic-rename-format' option to allow the automatic rename mechanism to use something other than the default of #{pane_current_command}. * new-session learnt '-c' to specify the starting directory for that session and all subsequent windows therein. * The session name is now shown in the message printed to the terminal when a session is detached. * Lots more format specifiers have been added. * Server race conditions have been fixed; in particular commands are not run until after the configuration file is read completely. * Case insensitive searching in tmux's copy-mode is now possible. * attach-session and switch-client learnt the '-t' option to accept a window and/or a pane to use. * Copy-mode is only exited if no selection is in progress. * Paste key in copy-mode is now possible to enter text from the clipboard. * status-interval set to '0' now works as intended. * tmux now supports 256 colours running under fbterm. * Many bug fixes! CHANGES FROM 1.7 TO 1.8, 26 March 2013 Incompatible Changes ==================== * layout redo/undo has been removed. Normal Changes ============== * Add halfpage up/down bindings to copy mode. * Session choosing fixed to work with unattached sessions. * New window options window-status-last-{attr,bg,fg} to denote the last window which was active. * Scrolling in copy-mode now scrolls the region without moving the mouse cursor. * run-shell learnt '-t' to specify the pane to use when displaying output. * Support for middle-click pasting. * choose-tree learns '-u' to start uncollapsed. * select-window learnt '-T' to toggle to the last window if it's already current. * New session option 'assume-paste-time' for pasting text versus key-binding actions. * choose-* commands now work outside of an attached client. * Aliases are now shown for list-commands command. * Status learns about formats. * Free-form options can be set with set-option if prepended with an '@' sign. * capture-pane learnt '-p' to send to stdout, and '-e' for capturing escape sequences, and '-a' to capture the alternate screen, and '-P' to dump pending output. * Many new formats added (client_session, client_last_session, etc.) * Control mode, which is a way for a client to send tmux commands. Currently more useful to users of iterm2. * resize-pane learnt '-x' and '-y' for absolute pane sizing. * Config file loading now reports errors from all files which are loaded via the 'source-file' command. * 'copy-pipe' mode command to copy selection and pipe the selection to a command. * Panes can now emit focus notifications for certain applications which use those. * run-shell and if-shell now accept formats. * resize-pane learnt '-Z' for zooming a pane temporarily. * new-session learnt '-A' to make it behave like attach-session. * set-option learnt '-o' to prevent setting an option which is already set. * capture-pane and show-options learns '-q' to silence errors. * New command 'wait-for' which blocks a client until woken up again. * Resizing panes will now reflow the text inside them. * Lots and lots of bug fixes, fixing memory-leaks, etc. * Various manpage improvements. CHANGES FROM 1.6 TO 1.7, 13 October 2012 * tmux configuration files now support line-continuation with a "\" at the end of a line. * New option status-position to move the status line to the top or bottom of the screen. * Enforce history-limit option when clearing the screen. * Give each window a unique id, like panes but prefixed with @. * Add pane id to each pane in layout description (while still accepting the old form). * Provide defined ways to set the various default-path possibilities: ~ for home directory, . for server start directory, - for session start directory and empty for the pane's working directory (the default). All can also be used as part of a relative path (eg -/foo). Also provide -c flags to neww and splitw to override default-path setting. * Add -l flag to send-keys to send input literally (without translating key names). * Allow a single option to be specified to show-options to show just that option. * New command "move-pane" (like join-pane but allows the same window). * join-pane and move-pane commands learn "-b" option to place the pane to the left or above. * Support for bracketed-paste mode. * Allow send-keys command to accept hex values. * Add locking around "start-server" to avoid race-conditions. * break-pane learns -P/-F arguments for display formatting. * set-option learns "-q" to make it quiet, and not print out anything. * copy mode learns "wrap-search" option. * Add a simple form of output rate limiting by counting the number of certain C0 sequences (linefeeds, backspaces, carriage returns) and if it exceeds a threshold (current default 250/millisecond), start to redraw the pane every 100 milliseconds instead of making each change as it comes. Two configuration options - c0-change-trigger and c0-change-interval. * find-window learns new flags: "-C", "-N", "-T" to match against either or all of a window's content, name, or title. Defaults to all three options if none specified. * find-window automatically selects the appropriate pane for the found matches. * show-environment can now accept one option to show that environment value. * Exit mouse mode when end-of-screen reached when scrolling with the mouse wheel. * select-layout learns -u and -U for layout history stacks. * kill-window, detach-client, kill-session all learn "-a" option for killing all but the current thing specified. * move-window learns "-r" option to renumber window sequentially in a session. * New session option "renumber-windows" to automatically renumber windows in a session when a window is closed. (see "move-window -r"). * Only enter copy-mode on scroll up. * choose-* and list-* commands all use "-F" for format specifiers. * When spawning external commands, the value from the "default-shell" option is now used, rather than assuming /bin/sh. * New choose-tree command to render window/sessions as a tree for selection. * display-message learns new format options. * For linked-windows across sessions, all flags for that window are now cleared across sessions. * Lots and lots of bug fixes, fixing memory-leaks, etc. * Various manpage improvements. CHANGES FROM 1.5 TO 1.6, 23 January 2012 * Extend the mode-mouse option to add a third choice which means the mouse does not enter copy mode. * Add a -r flag to switch-client to toggle the client read-only flag. * Add pane-base-index option. * Support \ for line continuation in the configuration file. * Framework for more powerful formatting of command output and use it for list-{panes,windows,sessions}. This allows more descriptive replacements (such as #{session_name}) and conditionals. * Mark dead panes with some text saying they are dead. * Reject $SHELL if it is not a full path. * Add -S option to refresh-client to redraw status line. * Add an else clause for if-shell. * Try to resolve relative paths for loadb and saveb (first, using client working directory, if any, then default-path or session working directory). * Support for \e[3J to clear the history and send the corresponding terminfo code (E3) before locking. * When in copy mode, make repeat count indicate buffer to replace, if used. * Add screen*:XT to terminal-overrides for tmux-in-tmux. * Status-line message attributes added. * Move word-separators to be a session rather than window option. * Change the way the working directory for new processes is discovered. If default-path isn't empty, it is used. Otherwise, if a new window is created from the command-line, the working directory of the client is used. If not, platform specific code is used to retrieve the current working directory of the process in the active pane. If that fails, the directory where the session was created is used, instead. * Do not change the current pane if both mouse-select-{pane,window} are enabled. * Add \033[s and \033[u to save and restore cursor position. * Allow $HOME to be used as default-path. * Add CNL and CPL escape sequences. * Calculate last position correctly for UTF-8 wide characters. * Add an option allow-rename to disable the window rename escape sequence. * Attributes for each type of status-line alert (ie bell, content and activity) added. Therefore, remove the superfluous options window-status-alert-{attr,bg,fg}. * Add a -R flag to send-keys to reset the terminal. * Add strings to allow the aixterm bright colours to be used when configuring colours. * Drop the ability to have a list of keys in the prefix in favour of two separate options, prefix and prefix2. * Flag -2 added to send-prefix to send the secondary prefix key. * Show pane size in top right of display panes mode. * Some memory leaks plugged. * More command-prompt editing improvements. * Various manpage improvements. * More Vi mode improvements. CHANGES FROM 1.4 TO 1.5, 09 July 2011 * Support xterm mouse modes 1002 and 1003. * Change from a per-session stack of buffers to one global stack. This renders copy-buffer useless and makes buffer-limit now a server option. * Fix most-recently-used choice by avoiding reset the activity timer for unattached sessions every second. * Add a -P option to new-window and split-window to print the new window or pane index in target form (useful to pass it into other commands). * Handle a # at the end of a replacement string (such as status-left) correctly. * Support for UTF-8 mouse input (\033[1005h) which was added in xterm 262. If the new mouse-utf8 option is on, UTF-8 mouse input is enabled for all UTF-8 terminals. The option defaults to on if LANG etc are set in the same manner as the utf8 option. * Support for HP-UX. * Accept colours of the hex form #ffffff and translate to the nearest from the xterm(1) 256-colour set. * Clear the non-blocking IO flag (O_NONBLOCK) on the stdio file descriptors before closing them (fixes things like "tmux ls && cat"). * Use TMPDIR if set. * Fix next and previous session functions to actually work. * Support -x and -y for new-session to specify the initial size of the window if created detached with -d. * Make bind-key accept characters with the top-bit-set and print them as octal. * Set $TMUX without the session when background jobs are run. * Simplify the way jobs work and drop the persist type, so all jobs are fire-and-forget. * Accept tcgetattr/tcsetattr(3) failure, fixes problems with fatal() if the terminal disappears while locked. * Add a -P option to detach to HUP the client's parent process (usually causing it to exit as well). * Support passing through escape sequences to the underlying terminal by using DCS with a "tmux;" prefix. * Prevent tiled producing a corrupt layout when only one column is needed. * Give each pane created in a tmux server a unique id (starting from 0), put it in the TMUX_PANE environment variable and accept it as a target. * Allow a start and end line to be specified for capture-pane which may be negative to capture part of the history. * Add -a and -s options to lsp to list all panes in the server or session respectively. Likewise add -s to lsw. * Change -t on display-message to be target-pane for the #[A-Z] replacements and add -c as target-client. * The attach-session command now prefers the most recently used unattached session. * Add -s option to detach-client to detach all clients attached to a session. * Add -t to list-clients. * Change window with mouse wheel over status line if mouse-select-window is on. * When mode-mouse is on, automatically enter copy mode when the mouse is dragged or the mouse wheel is used. Also exit copy mode when the mouse wheel is scrolled off the bottom. * Provide #h character pair for short hostname (no domain). * Don't use strnvis(3) for the title as it breaks UTF-8. * Use the tsl and fsl terminfo(5) capabilities to update terminal title and automatically fill them in on terminals with the XT capability (which means their title setting is xterm-compatible). * Add a new option, mouse-resize-pane. When on, panes may be resized by dragging their borders. * Fix crash by resetting last pane on {break,swap}-pane across windows. * Add three new copy-mode commands - select-line, copy-line, copy-end-of-line. * Support setting the xterm clipboard when copying from copy mode using the xterm escape sequence for the purpose (if xterm is configured to allow it). * Support xterm(1) cursor colour change sequences through terminfo(5) Cc (set) and Cr (reset) extensions. * Support DECSCUSR sequence to set the cursor style with two new terminfo(5) extensions, Cs and Csr. * Make the command-prompt custom prompts recognize the status-left option character pairs. * Add a respawn-pane command. * Add a couple of extra xterm-style keys that gnome terminal provides. * Allow the initial context on prompts to be set with the new -I option to command-prompt. Include the current window and session name in the prompt when renaming and add a new key binding ($) for rename session. * Option bell-on-alert added to trigger the terminal bell when there is an alert. * Change the list-keys format so that it shows the keys using actual tmux commands which should be able to be directly copied into the config file. * Show full targets for lsp/lsw -a. * Make confirm-before prompt customizable with -p option like command-prompt and add the character pairs #W and #P to the default kill-{pane,window} prompts. * Avoid sending data to suspended/locked clients. * Small memory leaks in error paths plugged. * Vi mode improvements. CHANGES FROM 1.3 TO 1.4, 27 December 2010 * Window bell reporting fixed. * Show which pane is active in the list-panes output. * Backoff reworked. * Prevent the server from dying when switching into copy mode when already in a different mode. * Reset running jobs when the status line is enabled or disabled. * Simplify xterm modifier detection. * Avoid crashing in copy mode if the screen size is too small for the indicator. * Flags -n and -p added to switch-client. * Use UTF-8 line drawing characters on UTF-8 terminals, thus fixing some terminals (eg putty) which disable the vt100 ACS mode switching sequences in UTF-8 mode. On terminals without ACS, use ASCII equivalents. * New server option exit-unattached added. * New session option destroy-unattached added. * Fall back on normal session choice method if $TMUX exists but is invalid rather than rejecting. * Mark repeating keys with "(repeat)" in the key list. * When removing a pane, don't change the active pane unless the active pane is actually the one being removed. * New command last-pane added. * AIX fixes. * Flag -a added to unbind-key. * Add XAUTHORITY to update-environment. * More info regarding window and pane flags is now shown in list-*. * If VISUAL or EDITOR contains "vi" configure mode-keys and status-key to vi. * New window option monitor-silence and session option visual-silence added. * In the built-in layouts distribute the panes more evenly. * Set the default value of main-pane-width to 80 instead of 81. * Command-line flag -V added. * Instead of keeping a per-client prompt history make it global. * Fix rectangle copy to behave like emacs (the cursor is not part of the selection on the right edge but on the left it is). * Flag -l added to switch-client. * Retrieve environment variables from the global environment rather than getenv(3), thus allowing them to be updated during the configuration file. * New window options other-pane-{height,width} added. * More minor bugs fixed and manpage improvements. CHANGES FROM 1.2 TO 1.3, 18 July 2010 * New input parser. * Flags to move through panes -UDLR added to select-pane. * Commands up-pane, and down-pane removed, since equivalent behaviour is now available through the target flag (-t:+ and -t:-). * Jump-forward/backward in copy move (based on vi's F, and f commands). * Make paste-buffer accept a pane as a target. * Flag -a added to new-window to insert a window after an existing one, moving windows up if necessary. * Merge more mode into copy mode. * Run job commands explicitly in the global environment (which can be modified with setenv -g), rather than with the environment tmux started with. * Use the machine's hostname as the default title, instead of an empty string. * Prevent double free if the window option remain-on-exit is set. * Key string conversions rewritten. * Mark zombie windows as dead in the choose-window list. * Tiled layout added. * Signal handling reworked. * Reset SIGCHLD after fork to fix problems with some shells. * Select-prompt command removed. Therefore, bound ' to command-prompt -p index "select-window -t:%%" by default. * Catch SIGHUP and terminate if running as a client, thus avoiding clients from being left hanging around when, for instance, a SSH session is disconnected. * Solaris 9 fixes (such as adding compat {get,set}env(3) code). * Accept none instead of default for attributes. * Window options window-status-alert-{alert,bg,fg} added. * Flag -s added to the paste-buffer command to specify a custom separator. * Allow dragging to make a selection in copy mode if the mode-mouse option is set. * Support the mouse scroll wheel. * Make pipe-pane accept special character sequences (eg #I). * Fix problems with window sizing when starting tmux from .xinitrc. * Give tmux sockets (but not the containing folder) group permissions. * Extend the target flags (ie -t) to accept an offset (for example -t:+2), and make it wrap windows, and panes. * New command choose-buffer added. * New server option detach-on-destroy to set what happens to a client when the session it is attached to is destroyed. If on (default), the client is detached. Otherwise, the client is switched to the most recently active of the remaining sessions. * The commands load-buffer, and save-buffer now accept a dash (-) as the file to read from stdin, or write to stdout. * Custom layouts added. * Additional code reduction, bug fixes, and manpage enhancements. CHANGES FROM 1.1 TO 1.2, 10 March 2010 * Switch to libevent. * Emulate the ri (reverse index) capability, ergo allowing tmux to at least start on Sun consoles (TERM=sun, or sun-color). * Assign each entry a number, or lowercase letter in choose mode, and accept that as a shortcut key. * Permit top-bit-set characters to be entered in the status line. * Mark no-prefix keys with (no prefix), rather than [] in list-keys. * New command show-messages (alias showmsgs), and new session option message-limit, to show a per-client log of status lines messages up to the number defined by message-limit. * Do not interpret #() for display-message to avoid leaking commands. * New window options window-status-format, and window-status-current-format to control the format of each window in the status line. * Add a -p flag to display-message to print the output, instead of displaying it in the status line. * Emulate il1, dl1, ich1 to run with vt100 feature set. * New command capture-pane (alias capturep) to copy the entire pane contents to a paste buffer. * Avoid duplicating code by adding a -w flag to set-option, and show-options to set, and show window options. The commands set-window-option, and show-window-options are now aliases. * Panes can now be referred to as top, bottom, top-left, etc. * Add server-wide options, which can be set with set-option -s, and shown with show-options -s. * New server option quiet (like -q from the command line). * New server option escape-time to set the timeout used to detect if escapes are alone, part of a function key, or meta sequence. * New session options pane-active-border-bg, pane-active-border-fg, pane-border-bg, and pane-border-fg to set pane colours. * Make split-window accept a pane target, instead of a window. * New command join-pane (alias joinp) to split, and move an existing pane into the space (the opposite of break-pane), thus simplifying calls to split-window, followed by move-window. * Permit S- prefix on keys for shift when the terminal/terminfo supports them. * Window targets (-t flag) can now refer to the last window (!), next (+), and previous (-) window by number. * Mode keys to jump to the bottom/top of history, end of the next word, scroll up/down, and reverse search in copy mode. * New session option display-panes-active-colour to display the active pane in a different colour with the display-panes command. * Read the socket path from $TMUX if it's present, and -L, and -S are not given. * Vi-style mode keys B, W, and E to navigate between words in copy mode. * Start in more mode when configuration file errors are detected. * Rectangle copy support added. * If attach-session was specified with the -r flag, make the client read-only. * Per-window alternate-screen option. * Make load-buffer work with FIFOs. * New window option word-separators to set the characters considered as word separators in copy mode. * Permit keys in copy mode to be prefixed by a repeat count, entered with [1-9] in vi mode, or M-[1-9] in emacs mode. * utf8 improvements. * As usual, additional code reduction, bug fixes, and manpage enhancements. CHANGES FROM 1.0 TO 1.1, 05 November 2009 * New run-shell (alias run) command to run an external command without a window, capture it's stdout, and send it to output mode. * Ability to define multiple prefix keys. * Internal locking mechanism removed. Instead, detach each client and run the external command specified in the new session option lock-command (by default lock -np), thus allowing the system password to be used. * set-password command, and -U command line flag removed per the above change. * Add support for -c command line flag to execute a shell command. * New lock-client (alias lockc), and lock-session (alias locks) commands to lock a particular client, or all clients attached to a session. * Support C-n/C-p/C-v/M-v with emacs keys in choice mode. * Use : for goto line rather than g in vi mode. * Try to guess which client to use when no target client was specified. Finds the current session, and if only one client is present, use it. Otherwise, return the most recently used client. * Make C-Down/C-Up in copy mode scroll the screen down/up one line without moving the cursor. * Scroll mode superseded by copy mode. * New synchronize-panes window option to send all input to all other panes in the same window. * New lock-server session option to lock, when off (on by default), each session when it has been idle for the lock-after-time setting. When on, the entire server locks when all sessions have been idle for their individual lock-after-time setting. * Add support for grouped sessions which have independent name, options, current window, but where the linked windows are synchronized (ie creating, killing windows are mirrored between the sessions). A grouped session may be created by passing -t to new-session. * New mouse-select-pane session option to select the current pane with the mouse. * Queue, and run commands in the background for if-shell, status-left, status-right, and #() by starting each once every status-interval. Adds the capability to call some programs which would previously cause the server to hang (eg sleep/tmux). It also avoids running commands excessively (ie if used multiple times, it will be run only once). * When a window is zombified and automatic-rename is on, append [dead] to the name. * Split list-panes (alias lsp) off from list-windows. * New pipe-pane (alias pipep) to redirect a pane output to an external command. * Support for automatic-renames for Solaris. * Permit attributes to be turned off in #[] by prefixing with no (eg nobright). * Add H/M/L in vi mode, and M-R/M-r in emacs to move the cursor to the top, middle, and bottom of the screen. * -a option added to kill-pane to kill all except current pane. * The -d command line flag is now gone (can be replaced by terminal-overrides). Just use op/AX to detect default colours. * input/tty/utf8 improvements. * xterm-keys rewrite. * Additional code reduction, and bug fixes. CHANGES FROM 0.9 TO 1.0, 20 September 2009 * Option to alter the format of the window title set by tmux. * Backoff for a while after multiple incorrect password attempts. * Quick display of pane numbers (C-b q). * Better choose-window, choose-session commands and a new choose-client command. * Option to request multiple responses when using command-prompt. * Improved environment handling. * Combine wrapped lines when pasting. * Option to override terminal settings (terminal-overrides). * Use the full range of ACS characters for drawing pane separator lines. * Customisable mode keys. * Status line colour options, with embedded colours in status-left/right, and an option to centre the window list. * Much improved layouts, including both horizontal and vertical splitting. * Optional visual bell, activity and content indications. * Set the utf8 and status-utf8 options when the server is started with -u. * display-message command to show a message in the status line, by default some information about the current window. * Improved current process detection on NetBSD. * unlink-window -k is now the same as kill-window. * attach-session now works from inside tmux. * A system-wide configuration file, /etc/tmux.conf. * A number of new commands in copy mode, including searching. * Panes are now specified using the target (-t) notation. * -t now accepts fnmatch(3) patterns and looks for prefixes. * Translate \r into \n when pasting. * Support for binding commands to keys without the prefix key * Support for alternate screen (terminfo smcup/rmcup). * Maintain data that goes off screen after reducing the window size, so it can be restored when the size is increased again. * New if-shell command to test a shell command before running a tmux command. * tmux now works as the shell. * Man page reorganisation. * Many minor additions, much code tidying and several bug fixes. CHANGES FROM 0.8 TO 0.9, 01 July 2009 * Major changes to build infrastructure: cleanup of makefiles and addition of a configure script. * monitor-content window option to monitor a window for a specific fnmatch(3) pattern. The find-window command also now accepts fnmatch(3) patterns. * previous-layout and select-layout commands, and a main-horizontal layout. * Recreate the server socket on SIGUSR1. * clear-history command. * Use ACS line drawing characters for pane separator lines. * UTF-8 improvements, and code to detect UTF-8 support by looking at environment variables. * The resize-pane-up and resize-pane-down commands are now merged together into a new resize-pane command with -U and -D flags. * confirm-before command to request a yes/no answer before executing dangerous commands. * Status line bug fixes, support for UTF-8 (status-utf8 option), and a key to paste from the paste buffer. * Support for some additional escape sequences and terminal features, including better support for insert mode and tab stops. * Improved window resizing behaviour, modelled after xterm. * Some code reduction and a number of miscellaneous bug fixes. ================================================================================ On 01 June 2009, tmux was imported into the OpenBSD base system. From this date onward changes are logged as part of the normal CVS commit message to either OpenBSD or SourceForge CVS. This file will be updated to contain a summary of major changes with each release, and to mention important configuration or command syntax changes during development. The list of older changes is below. ================================================================================ 21 May 2009 * stat(2) files before trying to load them to avoid problems, for example with "source-file /dev/zero". 19 May 2009 * Try to guess if the window is UTF-8 by outputting a three-byte UTF-8 wide character and seeing how much the cursor moves. Currently tries to figure out if this works by some stupid checks on the terminal, these need to be rethought. Also might be better using a width 1 character rather than width 2. * If LANG contains "UTF-8", assume the terminal supports UTF-8, on the grounds that anyone who configures it probably wants UTF-8. Not certain if this is a perfect idea but let's see if it causes any problems. * New window option: monitor-content. Searches for a string in a window and if it matches, highlight the status line. 18 May 2009 * main-horizontal layout and main-pane-height option to match vertical. * New window option main-pane-width to set the width of the large left pane with main-vertical (was left-vertical) layout. * Lots of layout cleanup. manual layout is now manual-vertical. 16 May 2009 * select-layout command and a few default key bindings (M-0, M-1, M-2, M-9) to select layouts. * Recreate server socket on SIGUSR1, per SF feature request 2792533. 14 May 2009 * Keys in status line (p in vi mode, M-y in emacs) to paste the first line of the upper paste buffer. Suggested by Dan Colish. * clear-history command to clear a pane's history. * Don't force wrapping with \n when asked, let the cursor code figure it out. Should fix terminals which use this to detect line breaks. * Major cleanup and restructuring of build infrastructure. Still separate files for GNU and BSD make, but they are now hugely simplified at the expense of adding a configure script which must be run before make. Now build and install with: $ ./configure && make && sudo make install 04 May 2009 * Use ACS line drawing characters for pane separator lines. 30 April 2009 * Support command sequences without a space before the semicolon, for example "neww; neww" now works as well as "neww ; neww". "neww;neww" is still an error. * previous-layout command. * Display the layout name in window lists. * Merge resize-pane-up and resize-pane-down into resize-pane with -U and -D flags. 29 April 2009 * Get rid of compat/vis.* - only one function was used which is easily replaced,and less compat code == good. 27 April 2009 * Avoid using the prompt history when the server is locked, and prevent any input entered from being added to the client's prompt history. * New command, confirm-before (alias confirm), which asks for confirmation before executing a command. Bound "&" and "x" by default to confirm-before "kill-window" and confirm-before "kill-pane", respectively. 23 April 2009 * Support NEL, yet another way of making newline. Fixes the output from some Gentoo packaging thing. Reported by someone on SF then logs that allowed a fix sent by tcunha. * Use the xenl terminfo flag to detect early-wrap terminals like the FreeBSD console. Many thanks for a very informative email from Christian Weisgerber. 21 April 2009 * tmux 0.8 released. 17 April 2009 * Remove the right number of characters from the buffer when escape then a cursor key (or other key prefixed by \033) is pressed. Reported by Stuart Henderson. 03 April 2009 * rotate-window command. -U flag (default) for up, -D flag for down. 02 April 2009 * Change scroll/pane redraws to only redraw the single pane affected rather than the entire window. * If redrawing the region would mean redrawing > half the pane, just schedule to redraw the entire window. Also add a flag to skip updating the window any further if it is scheduled to be redrawn. This has the effect of batching multiple redraws together. 01 April 2009 * Basic horizontal splitting and layout management. Still some redraw and other issues - particularly, don't mix with manual pane resizing, be careful when viewing from multiple clients and don't expect shell windows to redraw very well after the layout is changed; generally cycling the layout a few times will fix most problems. Getting this in for testing while I think about how to deal with manual mode. Split window as normal and cycle the layouts with C-b space. Some of the layouts will work better when swap-pane comes along. 31 March 2009 * AIX port, thanks to cmihai for access to a box. Only tested on 6.1 with xlc 10.1 (make sure CC is set). Needs GNU make and probably ncurses (didn't try plain curses). Also won't build with DEBUG, so comment the FDEBUG=1 line in GNUmakefile. * Draw a vertical line on the right when the window size is less than the terminal size. This is partly to shake out any horizontal limit bugs on the way to horizontal splitting/pane tiling. Currently a bit slow since it has to do a lot of redrawing but hopefully that will improve as I get some better ideas for how to do it. * Fix remaining problems with copy and paste and UTF-8. 28 March 2009 * Better UTF-8 support, including combined characters. Unicode data is now stored as UTF-8 in a separate array, the code does a lookup into this every time it gets to a UTF-8 cell. Zero width characters are just appended onto the UTF-8 data for the previous cell. This also means that almost no bytes extra are wasted non-Unicode data (yay). Still some oddities, such as copy mode skips over wide characters in a strange way, and the code could do with some tidying. * Key repeating is now a property of the key binding not of the command. Repeat is turned on when the key is bound with the -r flag to bind-key. next/previous-window no longer repeat by default as it turned out to annoy me. 27 March 2009 * Clear using ED when redrawing the screen. I foolishly assumed using spaces would be equivalent and terminals would pick up on this, but apparently not. This fixes copy and paste in xterm/rxvt. * Sockets in /tmp are now created in a subdirectory named, tmux-UID, eg tmux-1000. The default socket is thus /tmp/tmux-UID/default. To start a separate server, the new -L command line option should be used: this creates a socket in the same directory with a different name ("-L main" will create socket called "main"). -S should only be used to place the socket outside /tmp. This makes sockets a little more secure and a bit more convenient to use multiple servers. 21 March 2009 * New session flag "set-remain-on-exit" to set remain-on-exit flag for new windows created in that session (like "remain-by-default" used to do). Not perfectly happy about this, but until I can think of a good way to introduce it generically (maybe a set of options in the session) this will do. Fixes SF request 2527847. 07 March 2009 * Support for 88 colour terminals. * break-pane command to create a new window using an existing pane. 02 March 2009 * Make escape key timer work properly so escape+key can be used without lightning fast key presses. 13 February 2009 * Redo mode keys slightly more cleanly and apply them to command prompt editing. vi or emacs mode is controlled by the session option status-keys. 12 February 2009 * Looking up argv[0] is expensive, so just use p_comm for the window name which is good enough. Also increase name update time to 500 ms. 11 February 2009 * Only use ri when actually at the top of the screen; just move the cursor up otherwise. * FreeBSD's console wraps lines at $COLUMNS - 1 rather than $COLUMNS (the cursor can never be beyond $COLUMNS - 1) and does not appear to support changing this behaviour, or any of the obvious possibilities (turning off right margin wrapping, insert mode). This is irritating, most notably because it impossible to write to the very bottom-right of the screen without scrolling. To work around this, if built on FreeBSD and run with a "cons" $TERM, the bottom-right cell on the screen is omitted. * Emulate scroll regions (slowly) to support the few terminals which don't have it (some of which don't really have any excuse). 10 February 2009 * No longer redraw the status line every status-interval unless it has actually changed. 08 February 2009 * Don't treat empty arguments ("") differently when parsing configuration file/command prompt rather than command line. * tmux 0.7 released. 03 February 2009 * New command, copy-buffer (alias copyb), to copy a session paste buffer to another session. 01 February 2009 * The character pair #(command) may now contain (escaped) right parenthesis. 30 January 2009 * . now bound to "command-prompt 'move-window %%'" by default, from joshe. 29 January 2009 * Window options to set status line fg, bg and attributes for a single window. Options are: window-status-fg, window-status-bg, window-status-attr. Set to "default" to use the session status colours. This allows quite neat things like: $ cat ~/bin/xssh #!/bin/sh if [ ! -z "$TMUX" ]; then case "$1" in natalya) tmux setw window-status-fg red >/dev/null ;; natasha) tmux setw window-status-fg yellow >/dev/null ;; esac fi ssh "$@" [ ! -z "$TMUX" ] && tmux setw -u window-status-fg >/dev/null $ alias ssh="~/bin/xssh" * Support #(command) in status-left, and status-right, which is displayed as the first line of command's output (e.g. set -g status-right "#(whoami)@#(hostname -s)"). Commands with )s aren't supported. 28 January 2009 * Support mouse in copy mode to move cursor. Can't do anything else at the moment until other mouse modes are handled. * Better support for at least the most common variant of mouse input: parse it and adjust for different panes. Also support mouse in window/session choice mode. 27 January 2009 * Bring back the fancy window titles with session/window names: it is easy to work around problems with elinks (see FAQ). * -u flag to scroll-mode and copy-mode to start scrolled one page up. scroll-mode -u is bound to prefix,page-up (ppage) by default. * Allow status, mode and message attributes to be changed by three new options: status-attr, mode-attr, message-attr. A comma-separated list is accepted containing: bright, dim, underscore, blink, reverse, hidden, italics, for example: set -g status-attr bright,blink From Josh Elsasser, thanks! 26 January 2009 * Be more clever about picking the right process to create the window name. * Don't balls up the terminal on UTF-8 combined characters. Don't support them properly either - they are just discarded for the moment. 25 January 2009 * load-buffer command 23 January 2009 * Use reverse colours rather than swapping fg and bg for message, mode and status line. This makes these usable on black and white terminals. * Better error messages when creating a session or window fails. * Oops. Return non-zero on error. Reported by Will Maier. 21 January 2009 * Handle SIGTERM (and kill-server which uses it), a bit more neatly - tidy up properly and print a nicer message. Same effect though :-). * new-window now supports -k to kill target window if it exists. * Bring back split-window -p and -l options to specify the height a percentage or as a number of lines. * Make window and session choice modes allow you to choose items in vi keys mode (doh!). As a side-effect, this makes enter copy selection (as well as C-w/M-w) when using emacs keys in copy mode. Reported by merdely. 20 January 2009 * Darwin support for automatic-rename from joshe; Darwin doesn't seem to have a sane method of getting argv[0] and searching for the precise insane way is too frustrating, so this just uses the executable name. * Try to change the window title to match the command running it in. This is done by reading argv[0] from the process group leader of the group that owns the tty (tcgetpgrp()). This can't be done portably so some OS-dependent code is introduced (ugh); OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Linux are supported at the moment. A new window flag, automatic-rename, is available: if this is set to off, the window name is not changed. Specifying a name with the new-window, new-session or rename-window commands will automatically set this flag to off for the window in question. To disable it entirely set the option to off globally (setw -g automatic-rename off). 19 January 2009 * Fix various stupid issues when the status line is turned off. Grr. * Use reverse attributes for clock and cursor, otherwise they do not appear on black and white terminals. * An error in a command sequence now stops execution of that sequence. Internally, each command code now passes a return code back rather than talking to the calling client (if any) directly. * attach-session now tries to start the server if it isn't already started - if no sessions are created in .tmux.conf this will cause an error. * Clean up starting server by making initial client get a special socketpair. 18 January 2009 * Unbreak UTF-8. * -a flag to next-window and previous-window to select the next or previous window with activity or bell. Bound to M-n and M-p. * find-window command to search window names, titles and visible content (but not history) for a string. If only one is found, the window is selected otherwise a choice list is shown. This (as with the other choice commands) only works from a key. Bound to "f" by default. * Cleaned up command printing code, also enclose arguments with spaces in "s. * Added command sequences. These are entered by separating each argument by a ; argument (spaces on both sides), for example: lsk ; lsc To use a literal ; as the argument prefix it with \, for example: bind x lsk \; lsc Commands are executed from left to right. Also note that command sequences do not support repeat-time repetition unless all commands making up the sequence support it. * suspend-client command to suspend a client. Don't try to background it though... * Mark attached sessions in sessions lists. Suggested by Simon Kuhnle. 17 January 2009 * tmux 0.6 released. 15 January 2009 * Support #H for hostname and #S for session name in status-left/right. * Two new commands, choose-window and choose-session which work only when bound to a key and allow the window or session to be selected from a list. These are now bound to "w" and "s" instead of the list commands. 14 January 2009 * Rework the prefix-time stuff. The option is now called repeat-time and defaults to 500 ms. It only applies to a small subset of commands, currently: up-pane, down-pane, next-window, previous-window, resize-pane-up, resize-pane-down. These are the commands for which it is obviously useful, having it for everything else was just bloody annoying. * The alt-up and alt-down keys now resize a pane by five lines at a time. * switch-pane is now select-pane and requires -p to select a pane. The "o" key binding is changed to down-pane. * up-pane and down-pane commands, bound to arrow up and down by default. * Multiple vertical window splitting. Minimum pane size is four lines, an (unhelpful) error will be shown if attempting to split a window with less that eight lines. If the window is resized, as many panes are shown as can fit without reducing them below four lines. There is (currently!) not a way to show a hidden pane without making the window larger. Note the -p and -l options to split-window are now gone, these may reappear once I think them through again. * Server locking on inactivity (lock-after-time) is now disabled by default. 13 January 2009 * kill-pane command. 12 January 2009 * command-prompt now accepts a single argument, a template string. Any occurrences of %% in this string are replaced by whatever is entered at the prompt and the result is executed as a command. This allows things like (now bound by default): bind , command-prompt "rename-window %%" Or my favourite: bind x command-prompt "split-window 'man %%'" * Option to set prefix time, allowing multiple commands to be entered without pressing the prefix key again, so long as they each typed within this time of each other. * Yet more hacks for key handling. Think it is just about working now. * Two commands, resize-pane-up and resize-pane-down to resize a pane. * Make the window pane code handle panes of different sizes, and add a -l and -p arguments to split-window to specify the new window size in lines or as a percentage. 11 January 2009 * Vertical window splitting. Currently can only split a window into two panes. New split-window command splits (bound to ") and switch-pane command (bound to o) switches between panes. close-pane, swap-pane commands are to follow. Also to come are pane resizing, >2 panes, the ability to break a pane out to a full window and vice versa and possibly horizontal splitting. Panes are subelements of windows rather than being windows in their own right. I tried to make them windows (so the splitting was at the session or client level) but this rapidly became very complex and invasive. So in the interests of having something working, I just made it so each window can have two child processes instead of one (and it still took me 12 hours straight coding). Now the concept is proven and much of the support code is there, this may change in future if more flexibility is needed. * save-buffer command, from Tiago Cunha. 10 January 2009 * New option, lock-after-time. If there is no activity in the period specified by this option (in seconds), tmux will lock the server. Default is 1800 (30 minutes), set to 0 to disable. * Server locking. Two new commands: set-password to set a password (a preencrypted password may be specified with -c); and lock-server to lock the server until the password is entered. Also an additional command line flag, -U, to unlock from the shell. The default password is blank (any password accepted). If specifying an encrypted password from encrypt(1) in .tmux.conf with -c, don't forget to enclose it in single-quotes (') to prevent shell variable expansion. * If a window is created from the command line, tmux will now use the same current working directory for the new process. A new default-path option to sets the working directory for processes created from keys or interactively from the prompt. * New mode to display a large clock. Entered with clock-mode command (bound to C-b t by default); two window options: clock-mode-colour and clock-mode-style (12 or 24). This will probably be used as the basis for window locking. * New command, server-info, to show some server information and terminal details. 09 January 2009 * Stop using ncurses variables and instead build a table of the codes we want into an array for each terminal type. This makes the code a little more untidy in places but gets rid of the awful global variables and calling setterm all the time, and shoves all the ncurses-dependent mess into a single file, tty-term.c. It also allows overriding single terminal codes, this is used to fix rxvt on some platforms (where it is missing dch) and in future may allow user customisation a la vim. * Update key handling code. Simplify, support ctrl properly and add a new window option (xterm-keys) to output xterm key codes including ctrl and, if available, alt and shift. 08 January 2009 * If built without DEBUG (the release versions), don't cause a fatal error if the grid functions notice an input error, just log and ignore the request. This might mean me getting shouted at less often when bugs kill long-running sessions, at least in release versions. * Hopefully fix cursor out-of-bounds checking when writing to grid. When I wrote the code I must have forgotten that the cursor can be one cell off the right of the screen (yes, I know), so there were number of out-of-bounds/ overflow problems. 07 January 2009 * New flag to set and setw, -u, to unset an option (allowing it to inherit from) the global options again. * Added more info messages for options changes. * A bit of tidying and reorganisation of options code. 06 January 2009 * Don't crash when backspacing if cursor is off the right of the screen, reported by David Chisnall. * Complete words at any point inside command in prompt, also use option name as well as command names. * Per-client prompt history of up to 100 items. * Use a splay tree for key bindings instead of an array. As a side-effect this sorts them when listed. 22 December 2008 * Use the right keys for home and end. 20 December 2008 * Add vim mode for tmux configuration file to examples/, from Tiago Cunha. 15 December 2008 * New command, source-file (alias source), to load a configuration file. Written by Tiago Cunha, many thanks. 13 December 2008 * Work around lack of dch. On Linux, the rxvt termcap doesn't have it (it is lying, but we can't really start disbelieving termcaps...). This is a bit horrible - I can see no way to do it without pretty much redrawing the whole line, but it works... 10 December 2008 * glibc's getopt(3) is useless: it is not POSIX compliant without jumping through non-portable hoops, and the method of resetting it is unclear (the man page on my system says set optind to 1, but other sources say 0). So, import OpenBSD's getopt_long.c into compat/ for use on Linux and use the clearly documented optreset = optind = 1 method. This fixes some strange issues with command parsing (getting the syntax wrong would prevent any further commands being parsed). 06 December 2008 * Bring set/setw/show/showw into line with other commands. This means that by default they now affect the current window (if any); the new -g flag must be passed to set the global options. This changes the behaviour of set/show and WILL BREAK CURRENT CONFIGURATIONS. In summary, whether in the configuration file, the command prompt, or a key binding, use -g to set a global option, use -t to specify a particular window or session, or omit both to try and use the current window or session. This makes set/show a bit of a pain but is the correct behaviour for setw/showw and is the same as every other command, so we can put up with a bit of pain for consistency. * Redo window options. They now work in the same way to session options with a global options set. showw/setw commands now have similar syntax to show/set (including the ability to use abbreviations). PLEASE NOTE this includes the following configuration-breaking changes: - remain-by-default is now GONE, use "setw -g remain-on-exit" to apply the global window option instead; - mode-keys is now a window option rather than session - use "setw [-g] mode-keys" instead of set. There are also some additions: - message-fg and message-bg session options to control status line message colours; - mode-fg and mode-bg window options to set colours in window modes such as copy mode. The options code still a mess and now there is twice as much of it :-(. 02 December 2008 * Add support for including the window title in status-left or status-right strings by including the character pair "#T". This may be prefixed with a number to specify a maximum length, for example "#24T" to use at most 24 characters of the title. * Introduce two new options, status-left-length and status-right-length, control the maximum length of left and right components of the status bar. * elinks (and possibly others) bypass the terminal and talk directly to X to restore the window title when exiting. tmux can't know about this particular bit of stupidity so the title ends up strange - the prefix isn't terribly important and elinks is quite useful so just get rid of it. 27 November 2008 * Tweaks to support Dragonfly. 17 November 2008 * tmux 0.5 released. 16 November 2008 * New window option: "utf8"; this must be on (it is off by default) for UTF-8 to be parsed. The global/session option "utf8-default" controls the setting for new windows. This means that by default tmux does not handle UTF-8. To use UTF-8 by default it is necessary to a) "set utf8-default on" in .tmux.conf b) start tmux with -u on any terminal which support UTF-8. It seems a bit unnecessary for this to be a per-window option but that is the easiest way to do it, and it can't do any harm... * Enable default colours if op contains \033[39;49m, based on a report from fulvio ciriaco. 12 November 2008 * Keep stack of last windows rather than just most recent; based on a diff from joshe. 04 November 2008 * Don't try to redraw status line when showing a prompt or message; if it does, the status timer is never reset so it redraws on every loop. Spotted by joshe. 09 October 2008 * Translate 256 colours into 16 if 256 is not available, same as screen does. * Better support for OSC command (only to set window title now), and also support using APC for the same purpose (some Linux default shell profiles do this). 25 September 2008 * Large internal rewrite to better support 256 colours and UTF-8. Screen data is now stored as single two-way array of structures rather than as multiple separate arrays. Also simplified a lot of code. Only external changes are three new flags, -2, -d and -u, which force tmux to assume the terminal supports 256 colours, default colours (useful for xterm-256color which lacks the AX flag), or UTF-8 respectively. 10 September 2008 * Split off colour conversion code from screen code. 09 September 2008 * Initial UTF-8 support. A bit ugly and with a limit of 4096 UTF-8 characters per window. 08 September 2008 * 256 colour support. tmux attempts to autodetect the terminal by looking both at what ncurses reports (usually wrong for xterm) and checking if the TERM contains "256col". For xterm TERM=xterm-256color is needed (as well as a build that support 256 colours); this seems to work for rxvt as well. On non-256 colour terminals, high colours are translated to white foreground and black background. 28 August 2008 * Support OS X/Darwin thanks to bsd-poll.c from OpenSSH. Also convert from clock_gettime(2) to gettimeofday(2) as OS X doesn't support the former; microsecond accuracy will have to be sufficient ;-). 07 August 2008 * Lose some unused/useless wrapper functions. 25 July 2008 * Shell variables may now be defined and used in configuration file. Define variables with: VAR=1 And use with: renamew ${VAR} renamew "x${VAR}x" Also some other fixes to make, for example, "abc""abc" work similarly to the shell. 24 July 2008 * Finally lose inconsistently-used SCREEN_DEF* defines. * If cursor mode is on, switch the arrow keys from \033[A to \033OA. * Support the numeric keypad in both application and numbers mode. This is different from screen which always keeps it in application mode. 19 July 2008 * Unbreak "set status" - tmux thought it was ambiguous, reported by rivo nurges. 02 July 2008 * Split vi and emacs mode keys into two tables and add an option (mode-keys) to select between them. Default is emacs, use, tmux set mode-keys vi to change to vi. vi mode uses space to start selection, enter to copy selection and escape to clear selection. 01 July 2008 * Protocol versioning. Clients which identify as a different version from the server will be rejected. * tmux 0.4 released. 29 June 2008 * Zombie windows. These are not closed when the child process dies. May be set for a window with the new "remain-on-exit" option; the default setting of this flag for new windows may be set with the "remain-by-default" session option. A window may be restarted with the respawn-window command: respawn-window [-k] [command] If -k is given, any existing process running in the window is killed; if command is omitted, the same command as when the window was first created is used. 27 June 2008 * Handle nonexistent session or client to -t properly. 25 June 2008 * select-prompt command to allow a window to be selected at a prompt. Only windows in the current session may be selected. Bound to ' by default. Suggested by merdely. * move-window command. Requested by merdely. * Support binding alt keys (prefixed with M-). Change default to use C- for ctrl keys (^ is still accepted as an alternative). * Slim down default key bindings: support lowercase only. * Handle escaped keys properly (parse eg \033b into a single key code) and use this to change copy mode next/previous work to M-f and M-b to match emacs. 24 June 2008 * Next word (C-n/w) and previous word (C-b/b) in copy mode. 23 June 2008 * list-commands command (alias lscm). * Split information about options into a table and use it to parse options on input (allowing abbreviations) and to print them with show-options (meaning that bell-action gets a proper string). This turned out a bit ugly though :-/. 22 June 2008 * Do not translate black and white into default if the terminal supports default colours. This was nice to force programs which didn't use default colours to be properly transparent in rxvt/aterm windows with a background image, but it causes trouble if someone redefines the default foreground and background (to have black on white or something). 21 June 2008 * Naive tab completion in the command prompt. This only completes command names if a) they are at the start of the text b) the cursor is at the end of the text c) the text contains no spaces. * Only attempt to set the title where TERM looks like an xterm (contains "xterm", "rxvt" or is "screen"). I hate this but I don't see a better way: setting the title actually kills some other terminals pretty much dead. * Strip padding out of terminfo(5) strings. Currently the padding is just ignored, this may need to be altered if there are any software terminals out there that actually need it. 20 June 2008 * buffer-limit option to set maximum size of buffer stack. Default is 9. * Initial buffer improvements. Each session has a stack of buffers and each buffer command takes a -b option to manipulate items on the stack. If -b is omitted, the top entry is used. The following commands are currently available: set-buffer [-b index] [-t target-session] string paste-buffer [-d] [-b index] [-t target-window] delete-buffer [-b index] [-t target-session] show-buffers [-t target-session] show-buffer [-b index] [-t target-session] -d to paste-buffer deletes the buffer after pasting it. * New option, display-time, sets the time status line messages stay on screen (unless a key is pressed). Set in milliseconds, default is 750 (0.75 seconds). The timer is only checked every 100 ms or so. 19 June 2008 * Use "status" consistently for status line option, and prefix for "prefix" key option. * Allow commands to be entered at a prompt. This is triggered with the command-prompt command, bound to : by default. * Show status messages properly, without blocking the server. 18 June 2008 * New option, set-titles. On by default, this attempts to set the window title using the \e]2;...\007 xterm code. Note that elinks requires the STY environment variable (used by screen) to be set before it will set the window title. So, if you want window titles set by elinks, set STY before running it (any value will do). I can't do this for all windows since setting it to an invalid value breaks screen. * Show arrows at either end of status line when scrolled if more windows exist. Highlight the arrow if a hidden window has activity or bell. * Scroll the status line to show the current window if necessary. Also handle windows smaller than needed better (show a blank status line instead of hanging or crashing). 17 June 2008 * tmux 0.3 released. 16 June 2008 * Add some information messages when window options are changed, suggested by Mike Erdely. Also add a -q command-line option to suppress them. * show-window-options (showw) command. 15 June 2008 * show-options (show) command to show one or all options. 14 June 2008 * New window options: force-width and force-height. This will force a window to an arbitrary width and height (0 for the default unlimited). This is neat for emacs which doesn't have a sensible way to force hard wrapping at 80 columns. Also, don't try to be clever and use clr_eol when redrawing the whole screen, it causes trouble since the redraw functions are used to draw the blank areas too. * Clear the blank area below windows properly when they are smaller than client, also add an indicator line to show the vertical limit. * Don't die on empty strings in config file, reported by Will Maier. 08 June 2008 * Set socket mode +x if any sessions are attached and -x if not. 07 June 2008 * Make status-interval actually changeable. 06 June 2008 * New window option: aggressive-resize. Normally, windows are resized to the size of the smallest attached session to which they are linked. This means a window only changes size when sessions are detached or attached, or they are linked or unlinked from a session. This flag changes a window to be the size of the smallest attached session for which it is the current window - it is resized every time a session changes to it or away from it. This is nice for things that handle SIGWINCH well (like irssi) and bad for things like shells. * The server now exits when no sessions remain. * Fix bug with inserting characters with TERM=xterm-color. 05 June 2008 * Completely reorganise command parsing. Much more common code in cmd-generic.c and a new way of specifying windows, clients or sessions. Now, most commands take a -t argument, which specifies a client, a session, or a window target. Clients and sessions are given alone (sessions are fnmatch(3)d and clients currently not), windows are give by (client|session):index. For example, if a user is in session "1" window 0 on /dev/ttypi, these should all be equivalent: tmux renamew newname (current session and window) tmux renamew -t: newname (current session and window) tmux renamew -t:0 newname (current session, window 0) tmux renamew -t0 newname (current session, window 0) tmux renamew -t1:0 newname (session 1, window 0) tmux renamew -t1: newname (session 1's current window) tmux renamew -t/dev/ttypi newname (client /dev/ttypi's current session and window) tmux renamew -t/dev/ttypi: newname (client /dev/ttypi's current session and window) tmux renamew -t/dev/ttypi:0 newname (client /dev/ttypi's current session, window 0) This does have some downsides, for example, having to use -t on selectw, tmux selectw -t7 is annoying. But then using non-flagged arguments would mean renaming the current window would need to be something like: tmux renamew : newname It might be better not to try and be so consistent; comments to the usual address ;-). * Infrastructure for printing arguments in list-keys output. Easy ones only for now. 04 June 2008 * Add some vi(1) key bindings in copy mode, and support binding ^[, ^\, ^] ^^ and ^_. Both from/prompted by Will Maier. * setw monitor-activity and set status without arguments now toggle the current value; suggested by merdely. * New command set-window-option (alias setw) to set the single current window option: monitor-activity to determine whether window activity is shown in the status bar for that window (default off). * Change so active/bell windows are inverted in status line. * Activity monitoring - window with activity are marked in status line. No way to disable this/filter windows yet. * Brought select-window command into line with everything else; it now uses -i for the window index. * Strings to display on the left and right of the status bar may now be set with the status-left and status-right options. These are passed through strftime(3) before being displayed. The status bar is automatically updated at an interval set by the status-interval option. The default is to display nothing on the left and the date and time on the left; the default update interval is 15 seconds. 03 June 2008 * Per session options. Setting options without specifying a session sets the global options as normal (global options are inherited by all sessions); passing -c or -s will set the option only for that session. * Because a client has a session attached, any command needing a session can take a client and use its session. So, anything that used to accept -s now accepts -c as well. * -s to specify session name now supports fnmatch(3) wildcards; if multiple sessions are found, or if no -s is specified, the most newly created is used. * If no command is specified, assume new-session. As a byproduct, clean up command default values into separate init functions. * kill-server command. 02 June 2008 * New command, start-server (alias "start"), to start the tmux server and do nothing else. This is good if you have a configuration file which creates windows or sessions (like me): in that case, starting the server the first time tmux new is run is bad since it creates a new session and window (as it is supposed to - starting the server is a side-effect). Instead, I have a little script which does the equivalent of: tmux has -s0 2>/dev/null || tmux start tmux attach -d -s0 And I use it to start the server if necessary and attach to my primary session. * Basic configuration file in ~/.tmux.conf or specified with -f. This is file contains a set of tmux commands that are run the first time the server is started. The configuration commands are executed before any others, so if you have a configuration file that contains: new -d neww -s0 And you do the following without an existing server running: tmux new You will end up with two sessions, session 0 with two windows (created by the configuration file) and your client attached to session 1 with one window (created by the command-line command). I'm not completely happy with this, it seems a little non-obvious, but I haven't yet decided what to do about it. There is no environment variable handling or other special stuff yet. In the future, it might be nice to be able to have per-session configuration settings, probably by having conditionals in the file (so you could, for example, have commands to define a particular window layout that would only be invoked if you called tmux new -smysession and mysession did not already exist). * BIG CHANGE: -s and -c to specify session name and client name are now passed after the command rather than before it. So, for example: tmux -s0 neww Becomes: tmux neww -s0 This is to allow them to be used in the (forthcoming) configuration file THIS WILL BREAK ANY CURRENT SCRIPTS OR ALIASES USING -s OR -c. 01 June 2008 * Bug fix: don't die if -k passed to link-window and the destination doesn't exist. * New command, send-keys, will send a set of keys to a window. 31 May 2008 * Fix so tmux doesn't hang if the initial window fails for some reason. This was highlighted by problems on Darwin, thanks to Elias Pipping for the report and access to a test account. (tmux still won't work on Darwin since its poll(2) is broken.) 02 January 2008 * Don't attempt to reset the tty on exit if it has been closed externally. 06 December 2007 * Restore checks for required termcap entries and add a few more obvious emulations. * Another major reorganisation, this time of screen handling. A new set of functions, screen_write_*, are now used to write to a screen and a tty simultaneously. These are used by the input parser to update the base window screen and also by the different modes which now interpose their own screen. 30 November 2007 * Support \ek...\e\ to set window name. 27 November 2007 * Enable/disable mouse when asked, if terminal claims to support it. Mouse sequences are just passed through unaltered for the moment. * Big internal reorganisation. Rather than leaving control of the tty solely in the client and piping all data through a socket to it, change so that the server opens the tty again and reads and writes to it directly. This avoids a lot of buffering and copying. Also reorganise the redrawing stuff so that everything goes through screen_draw_* - this makes the code simpler, but still needs broken up more, and all the ways of writing to screens should be more consistent. 26 November 2007 * Rather than shifting up one line at a time once the history is full, shift by 10% of the history each time. This is faster. * Add ^A and ^E to copy mode to move to start-of-line/end-of-line. 24 November 2007 * Support for alt charset mode (VT100 graphics characters). 23 November 2007 * Mostly complete copy & paste. Copy mode entered with C-b [ (copy-mode command). In copy mode, arrow keys/page up/page down/hjkl/C-u/C-f navigate, space or C-space starts selection, and enter or C-w copies and (important!) exits copy mode. C-b ] (paste-buffer) pastes into current window. No extra utility keys (bol/eol/clear selection/etc), only one single buffer, and no buffer manipulation commands (clear/view/etc) yet. The code is also fugly :-(. * history-limit option to set maximum history. Does not apply retroactively to existing windows! Lines take up a variable amount of space, but a reasonable guess for an 80-column terminal is 250 KB per 1000 lines (of history used, an empty history takes no space). 21 November 2007 * Create every line as zero length and only expand it as data is written, rather than creating at full size immediately. * Make command output (eg list-keys) go to a scrollable window similar to scroll mode. * Redo screen redrawing so it is a) readable b) split into utility functions that can be used outside screen.c. Use these to make scroll mode only redraw what it has to which gets rid of irritating flickering status box and makes it much faster. * Full line width memory and horizontal scrolling in history. * Initial support for scroll history. = to enter scrolling mode, and then vi keys or up/down/pgup/pgdown to navigate. Q to exit. No horizontal history yet (need per-line sizes) and a few kinks to be worked out (resizing while in history mode will probably cause trouble). 20 November 2007 * Fix format string error with "must specify a client" message. Also sprinkle some printflike tags. * tmux 0.1 released. 17 November 2007 * (nicm) Add -k option to link-window to kill target window if it exists. 16 November 2007 * (nicm) Split in-client display into two columns. This is a hack but not a lot more so than that bit is already and it helps with lots of keys. * (nicm) switch-client command to switch client between different sessions. This is pretty cool: $ tmux bind q switch 0 $ tmux bind w switch 1 Then you can switch between sessions 0 and 1 with a key :-). * (nicm) Accept "-c client-tty" on command line to allow client manipulation commands, and change detach-/refresh-session to detach-/refresh-client (this loses the -a behaviour, but at some point -session versions may return, and -c will allow fnmatch(3)). * (nicm) List available commands on ambiguous command. 12 November 2007 * (nicm) If the terminal supports default colours (AX present), force black background and white foreground to default. This is useful on transparent *terms for programs which don't do it themselves (like most(1)). * (nicm) Fill in the rest of the man page. * (nicm) kill-session command. 09 November 2007 * (nicm) C-space is now "^ " not "^@". * (nicm) Support tab (\011). * (nicm) Initial man page outline. * (nicm) -V to show version. * (nicm) rename-session command. 08 November 2007 * (nicm) Check for required terminal capabilities on start. 31 October 2007 * (nicm) Linux port. 30 October 2007 * (nicm) swap-window command. Same as link-window but swaps windows. 26 October 2007 * (nicm) Saving scroll region on \e7 causes problems with ncmpc so I guess it is not required. * (nicm) unlink-window command. * (nicm) link-window command to link an existing window into another session (or another index in the same session). Syntax: tmux -s dstname link-window [-i dstidx] srcname srcidx * (nicm) Redo window data structures. The global array remains, but each per- session list is now a RB tree of winlink structures. This disassociates the window index from the array size (allowing arbitrary indexes) which still allowing windows to have multiple indexes. 25 October 2007 * (nicm) has-session command: checks if session exists. 24 October 2007 * (nicm) Support for \e6n to request cursor position. resize(1) now works. * (nicm) Support for \e7, \e8 save/restore cursor and attribute sequences. Currently don't save mode (probably should). Also change some cases where out-of-bound values are ignored to limit them to within range (there are others than need to be checked too). 23 October 2007 * (nicm) Lift limit on session name passed with -s. * (nicm) Show size in session/window lists. * (nicm) Pass tty up to server when client identifies and add a list-clients command to list connected clients. 20 October 2007 * (nicm) Add default-command option and change default to be $SHELL rather than $SHELL -l. Also try to read shell from passwd db if $SHELL isn't present. 19 October 2007 * (nicm) -n on new-session is now -s, and -n is now the initial window name. This was documented but not implemented :-/. * (nicm) kill-window command, bound to & by default (because it should be hard to hit accidently). * (nicm) bell-style option with three choices: "none" completely ignore bell; "any" pass through a bell in any window to current; "current" ignore bells except in current window. This applies only to the bell terminal signal, the status bar always reflects any bells. * (nicm) Refresh session command. 12 October 2007 * (nicm) Add a warning if $TMUX exists on new/attach. * (nicm) send-prefix command. Bound to C-b by default. * (nicm) set status, status-fg, status-bg commands. fg and bg are as a number from 0 to 8 or a string ("red", "blue", etc). status may be 1/0, on/off, yes/no. * (nicm) Make status line mark window in yellow on bell. 04 October 2007 * (nicm) -d option to attach to detach all other clients on the same session. * (nicm) Partial resizing support. Still buggy. A C-b S and back sometimes fixes it when it goes wonky. * (mxey) Added my tmux start script as an example (examples/start-tmux.sh). * (mxey) New sessions can now be given a command for their first window. * (mxey) Fixed usage statement for new-window. * (nicm) attach-session (can't believe I forgot it until now!) and list-windows commands. * (nicm) rename-window and select-window commands. * (nicm) set-option command (alias set): "tmux set-option prefix ^A". * (nicm) Key binding and unbinding is back. 03 October 2007 * (nicm) {new,next,last,previous}-window. * (nicm) Rewrite command handling so commands are much more generic and the same commands are used for command line and keys (although most will probably need to check how they are called). Currently incomplete (only new/detach/ls implemented). Change: -s is now passed before command again! * (nicm) String number arguments. So you can do: tmux bind ^Q create "blah". * (nicm) Key binding. tmux bind key command [argument] and tmux unbind key. Key names are in a table in key-string.c, plus A is A, ^A is ctrl-A. Possible commands are in cmd.c (look at cmd_bind_table). * (nicm) Move command parsing into the client. Also rename some messages and tidy up a few bits. Lots more tidying up needed :-/. 02 October 2007 * (nicm) Redraw client status lines on rename. * (nicm) Error on ambiguous command. 01 October 2007 * (nicm) Restore window title handling. * (nicm) Simple uncustomisable status line with window list. 30 September 2007 * (nicm) Window info command for debugging, C-b I. 29 September 2007 * (nicm) Deleting/inserting lines should follow scrolling region. Fix. * (nicm) Allow creation of detached sessions: "tmux new-session -d". * (nicm) Permit error messages to be passed back for transient clients like rename. Also make rename -i work. * (nicm) Pass through bell in any window to current. 28 September 2007 * (nicm) Major rewrite of input parser: - Lose the old weirdness in favour of a state machine. - Merge in parsing from screen.c. - Split key parsing off into a separate file. This is step one towards hopefully allowing a status line. It requires that we output data as if the terminal had one line less than it really does - a serious problem when it comes to things like scrolling. This change consolidates all the range checking and limiting together which should make it easier. * (mxey) Added window renaming, like "tmux rename [-s session] [-i index] name" 27 September 2007 * Split "tmux list" into "tmux list-sessions" (ls) and "list-windows" (lsw). * New command session selection: - if name is specified, look for it and use it if it exists, otherwise error - if no name specified, try the current session from $TMUX - if $TMUX doesn't exist, and there is only one session, use it, otherwise error 26 September 2007 * Add command aliases, so "ls" is an alias for "list". * Rename some commands and alter syntax to take options after a la CVS. Also change some flags. So: tmux -s/socket -nabc new Becomes: tmux -S/socket new -sabc * Major tidy and split of client/server code. 22 September 2007 * Window list command (C-b W). Started by Maximilian Gass, finished by me. 20 September 2007 * Specify meta via environment variable (META). * Record last window and ^L key to switch to it. Largely from Maximilian Gass. * Reset ignored signals in child after forkpty, makes ^C work. * Wrap on next/previous. From Maximilian Gass. 19 September 2007 * Don't renumber windows on close. 28 August 2007 * Scrolling region (\e[r) support. 27 August 2007 * Change screen.c to work more logically and hopefully fix heap corruption. 09 July 2007 * Initial import to CVS. Basic functions are working, albeit with a couple of showstopper memory bugs and many missing features. Detaching, reattaching, creating new sessions, listing sessions work acceptably for using with shells. Simple curses programs (top, systat, tetris) and more complicated ones (mutt, emacs) that don't require scrolling regions (ESC[r) mostly work fine (including mutt, emacs). No status bar yet and no key remapping or other customisation.