Top 5 tmux features that have improved my life
I switched from screen to tmux a couple weeks ago. Just replied to a post from a fellow switcher on baylisa with the following top 5 list:
- multiple cut-and-paste buffers! ‘set -g buffer-limit 30’ then ‘bind = choose-buffer’ …bliss
- way fewer terminal emulation bugs - screen gave me this awful backwards-stairstep redraw problem when editing a multi-line commandline, tmux works
- scrollback/cut-n-paste mode persists until you deliberately exit. in screen, marking the end of a buffer exits scrollback, which is pretty much never what I want.
- supports solarized colorscheme with easy config: https://github.com/seebi/tmux-colors-solarized
- multi-attach behaviour much nicer with different-sized terminal window clients — it shows you the gaps in a nice halftone.