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Welcome to tmux!
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tmux is a "terminal multiplexer", it enables a number of terminals (or windows)
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to be accessed and controlled from a single terminal. tmux is intended to be a
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simple, modern, BSD-licensed alternative to programs such as GNU screen.
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This 0.6 release runs on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux and OS X and may still run on
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Solaris (although it hasn't been tested in a while). It is usable, although
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there remain a number of missing features and some remaining bugs are expected.
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If upgrading from 0.5, PLEASE NOTE the following configuration file changes: it
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is now required to pass the -g flag to set-option or set-window-option to set
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global options; remain-by-default and utf8-default are now gone, use global
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window options (set-window-option -g) instead.
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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; and to
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bind and unbind command keys (invoked preceded by a prefix key, by default
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ctrl-b). Please see the tmux(1) man page for further information.
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The following is a summary of major features implemented in this version:
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- Basic multiplexing, window switching, attaching and detaching.
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- Window listing and renaming.
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- Key binding.
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- Handling of client terminal resize.
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- Terminal emulation sufficient to handle most curses applications. Without
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known issues are: emacs, irssi, mutt, ncmpc (resize problems are present in
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both tmux and screen), vim and various tools and games in the OpenBSD base
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system.
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- A optional status line (enabled by default).
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- Window history and copy and paste.
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- Support for VT100 line drawing characters.
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- A large command set.
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- Vertical window splitting.
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- Automatic server locking on inactivity.
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- A configuration file.
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And major missing features:
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- Proper mouse support.
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- No support for programs changing termios(4) settings or other tty(4) ioctls.
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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. Known working are
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TERM=screen (tmux in screen), xterm, xterm-color and rxvt. Note that TERM=xterm
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does not support colour on OpenBSD. screen ignores this, tmux does not: use
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xterm-color or rxvt for colour.
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tmux supports UTF-8. To use it, the utf8 option must be set on each window;
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this may be turned on for all windows by setting it as a global option, see
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tmux(1) and the FAQ file. In addition, when starting tmux or attaching to an
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existing session from a UTF-8-capable terminal, the -u flag must be specified.
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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
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(e.g. ~/.vim/syntax/tmux.vim).
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- Make the filetype recognisable by adding the following to filetype.vim
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(again) in your runtimepath (e.g. ~/.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 in your vimrc file by adding "syntax enable"
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to it.
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There are the following known issues:
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- cons25 on the FreeBSD console doesn't support scroll region (cs) (or lies
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about support, I'm not totally clear which). This is a pity but emulating cs
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is nontrivial and as most modern vt220-based software terminals support it,
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currently there are better things to work one. Diffs or ideas how to cleanly
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emulate cs are welcome.
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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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The CVS HEAD version of tmux often has additional features from the release
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versions; if interested, testing it is encouraged. It can be obtained by
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anonymous CVS from SourceForge:
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$ cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@tmux.cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/tmux co tmux
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If running CVS HEAD, please note it is development code and there may be bugs
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and undocumented features; please read the CHANGES file for information.
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Bug reports, feature suggestions and especially code contributions are most
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welcome. Please email:
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nicm@users.sf.net
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-- Nicholas Marriott <nicm@users.sf.net>
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$Id: NOTES,v 1.42 2009-01-18 17:20:52 nicm Exp $
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