| Welcome to tmux! |
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| tmux is a "terminal multiplexer", it enables a number of terminals (or windows) |
| to be accessed and controlled from a single terminal. tmux is intended to be a |
| simple, modern, BSD-licensed alternative to programs such as GNU screen. |
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| This 0.9 release runs on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux and OS X and may still |
| run on Solaris and AIX (although they hasn't been tested in a while). It is |
| usable, although 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 |
| is now required to pass the -g flag to set-option or set-window-option to set |
| global options; remain-by-default and utf8-default are now gone, use global |
| 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 |
| required and runs continuously unless killed by the user. Clients access the |
| server through a socket in /tmp. Multiple sessions may be created on a single |
| server and attached to a number of clients. Each session may then have a number |
| of windows and windows may be linked to a number of sessions. Commands are |
| available to create, rename and destroy windows and sessions; to attach and |
| detach sessions from client terminals; to set configuration options; to split |
| windows into several simultaneously displayed panes; and to bind and unbind |
| command keys (invoked preceded by a prefix key, by default 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. |
| - Window listing and renaming. |
| - Key binding. |
| - Handling of client terminal resize. |
| - Terminal emulation sufficient to handle most curses applications. |
| - A optional status line (enabled by default). |
| - Window history and copy and paste. |
| - Support for VT100 line drawing characters. |
| - A large command set. |
| - Vertical window splitting and layout. |
| - Automatic server locking on inactivity. |
| - A configuration file. |
| - UTF-8 support. |
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| And major missing features: |
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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 |
| are missing it may refuse to run, or not behave correctly. Known working are |
| TERM=screen (tmux in screen), xterm, xterm-color and rxvt. Note that TERM=xterm |
| does not support colour on OpenBSD. screen ignores this, tmux does not: use |
| 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; |
| this may be turned on for all windows by setting it as a global option, see |
| tmux(1) and the FAQ file. As of 0.9, tmux attempts to autodetect a |
| UTF-8-capable terminal by checking the LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG environment |
| variables. list-clients may be used to check if this is detected correctly; if |
| not, the -u command-line flag may 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 (such as |
| ~/.vim/syntax/tmux.vim). |
| - Make the filetype recognisable by adding the following to filetype.vim |
| in your runtimepath (~/.vim/filetype.vim): |
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| augroup filetypedetect |
| au BufNewFile,BufRead .tmux.conf*,tmux.conf* setf tmux |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| welcome. Please send by email to: |
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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 1.48 2009-07-01 19:49:56 nicm Exp $ |