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Welcome to tmux!
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.
This release runs on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, OS X and Solaris.
tmux depends on libevent 2.x. Download it from:
http://libevent.org
It also depends on ncurses, available from:
http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/
To build and install tmux from a release tarball, use:
$ ./configure && make
$ sudo make install
tmux can use the utempter library to update utmp(5), if it is installed - run
configure with --enable-utempter to enable this.
To get and build the latest from version control:
$ git clone https://github.com/tmux/tmux.git
$ cd tmux
$ sh autogen.sh
$ ./configure && make
(Note that this requires at least a working C compiler, make, autoconf,
automake, pkg-config as well as libevent and ncurses libraries and headers.)
For more information see http://git-scm.com. Patches should be sent by email to
the mailing list at tmux-users@googlegroups.com or submitted through GitHub at
https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues.
For documentation on using tmux, see the tmux.1 manpage. It can be viewed from
the source tree with:
$ nroff -mdoc tmux.1|less
A small example configuration in example_tmux.conf.
A vim(1) syntax file is available at:
https://github.com/ericpruitt/tmux.vim
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ericpruitt/tmux.vim/master/vim/syntax/tmux.vim
And a bash(1) completion file at:
https://github.com/imomaliev/tmux-bash-completion
For debugging, running tmux with -v or -vv will generate server and client log
files in the current directory.
tmux mailing lists are available. For general discussion and bug reports:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tmux-users
And for Git commit emails:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tmux-git
Subscribe by sending an email to <tmux-users+subscribe@googlegroups.com>.
Bug reports, feature suggestions and especially code contributions are most
welcome. Please send by email to:
tmux-users@googlegroups.com
This file and the CHANGES, FAQ, SYNCING and TODO files are licensed under the
ISC license. All other files have a license and copyright notice at their start.
-- Nicholas Marriott <nicholas.marriott@gmail.com>