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Welcome to tmux!
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tmux is a "terminal multiplexer", it enables a number of terminals (or windows)
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to be accessed and controlled from a single terminal. tmux is intended to be a
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simple, modern, BSD-licensed alternative to programs such as GNU screen.
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This release runs on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux and OS X and may still
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run on Solaris and AIX (although they haven't been tested in a while). It is
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usable, although there remain a number of missing features and some remaining
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bugs are expected.
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If upgrading from 1.5, PLEASE NOTE:
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- The word-separators window option is now a session option.
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- The options used to change the window attributes when an alert occurs were
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removed. Each kind of alert has its own individual set of options.
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- The ability to have a list of prefix keys was dropped in favour of two
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separate options, prefix and prefix2.
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Since the 1.2 release that tmux depends on libevent. Download it from:
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http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
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To build tmux from a release tarball, do:
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$ ./configure && make
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$ sudo make install
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To build from a version control checkout, the configure script must be
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generated by running:
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$ sh autogen.sh
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tmux consists of a server part and multiple clients. The server is created when
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required and runs continuously unless killed by the user. Clients access the
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server through a socket in /tmp. Multiple sessions may be created on a single
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server and attached to a number of clients. Each session may then have a number
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of windows and windows may be linked to a number of sessions. Commands are
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available to create, rename and destroy windows and sessions; to attach and
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detach sessions from client terminals; to set configuration options; to split
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windows into several simultaneously displayed panes; and to bind and unbind
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command keys (invoked preceded by a prefix key, by default ctrl-b). Please see
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the tmux(1) man page for further information.
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A more extensive, but rough, todo list is included in the TODO file.
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tmux also depends on several features of the client terminal (TERM), if these
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are missing it may refuse to run, or not behave correctly.
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A Vim syntax file is available in the examples directory. To install it:
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- Drop the file in the syntax directory in your runtimepath (such as
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~/.vim/syntax/tmux.vim).
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- Make the filetype recognisable by adding the following to filetype.vim
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in your runtimepath (~/.vim/filetype.vim):
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augroup filetypedetect
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au BufNewFile,BufRead .tmux.conf*,tmux.conf* setf tmux
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augroup END
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- Switch on syntax highlighting by adding "syntax enable" to your vimrc file.
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For debugging, running tmux with -v or -vv will generate server and client log
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files in the current directory.
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tmux mailing lists are available; visit:
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https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=200378
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Bug reports, feature suggestions and especially code contributions are most
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welcome. Please send by email to:
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nicm@users.sf.net
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This file and the CHANGES, FAQ and TODO files are licensed under the ISC
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license. Files under examples/ remain copyright their authors unless otherwise
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stated in the file but permission has been received to distribute them with
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tmux. All other files have a license and copyright notice at their
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start. Please contact me with any queries.
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-- Nicholas Marriott <nicm@users.sf.net>
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$Id$
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