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# Screencast script
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1. Intro
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========
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Let's demo tmux resurrect plugin.
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Tmux resurrect enables persisting tmux sessions, so it can survive the dreaded
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system restarts.
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The benefit is uninterrupted workflow with no configuration required.
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2. Working session
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Script
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Let me show you what I have in this tmux demo session.
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First of all, I have vim open and it has a couple files loaded.
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Then there's a tmux window with a couple splits in various directories across
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the system.
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Next window contains tmux man page,
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and then there's `htop` program.
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And this is just one of many projects I'm currently running.
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Actions
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- blank tmux window
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- vim
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- `ls` to show open files
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- multiple pane windows (3)
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- man tmux
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- htop
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- psql
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- show a list of session
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3. Saving the environment
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Script
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With vanilla tmux, when I restart the computer this whole environment will be
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lost and I'll have to invest time to restore it.
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tmux resurrect gives you the ability to persist everything with
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prefix plus alt-s.
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Now tmux environment is saved and I can safely shut down tmux with a
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kill server command.
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Actions
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- prefix + M-s
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- :kill-server
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4. Restoring the environment
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Script
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At this point restoring everything back is easy.
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I'll fire up tmux again. Notice it's completely empty.
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Now, I'll press prefix plus alt-r and everything will restore.
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Let's see how things look now.
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First of all, I'm back to the exact same window I was in when the environment
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was saved. Second - you can see the `htop` program was restored.
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Going back there's tmux man page
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a window with multiple panes with the exact same layout as before
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and vim.
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tmux resurrect takes special care of vim. By leveraging vim's sessions, it
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preserves vim's split windows, open files, even the list of files edited before.
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Check out the project readme for more details about special treatment for vim.
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That was just one of the restored tmux sessions. If I open tmux session list you
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can see all the other projects are restored as well.
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When you see all these programs running you might be concerned that this plugin
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started a lot of potentially destructive processes.
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For example, when you restore tmux you don't want to accidentally start backups,
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resource intensive or sensitive programs.
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There's no need to be worried though. By default, this plugin starts only a
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conservative list of programs like vim, less, tail, htop and similar.
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This list of programs restored by default is in the project readme. Also, you
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can easily add more programs to it.
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If you feel paranoid, there's an option that prevents restoring any program.
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Actions
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- tmux
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- prefix + M-r
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- open previous windows
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- in vim hit :ls
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- prefix + s for a list of panes
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5. Outro
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========
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That's it for this demo. I hope you'll find tmux resurrect useful.
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