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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 and OS X and may still
run on Solaris and AIX (although they haven't been tested in a while).
If upgrading from 1.5, PLEASE NOTE:
- The word-separators window option is now a session option.
- The options used to change the window attributes when an alert occurs were
removed. Each kind of alert has its own individual set of options.
- The ability to have a list of prefix keys was dropped in favour of two
separate options, prefix and prefix2.
Since the 1.2 release tmux depends on libevent. Download it from:
http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
To build tmux from a release tarball, do:
$ ./configure && make
$ sudo make install
To get and build the latest version control checkout:
$ git clone git://tmux.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/tmux/tmux
$ cd tmux
$ sh autogen.sh
$ ./configure && make
For more information see https://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=git&group_id=200378
and http://git-scm.com.
For documentation on using tmux, see the tmux.1 manpage. It can be viewed from
the source tree with:
$ nroff -mdoc tmux.1|less
Some common questions are answered in the FAQ file and a more extensive (but
slightly out of date) guide is available in the OpenBSD FAQ at
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq7.html#tmux. A rough todo list is in the TODO
file.
A Vim syntax file is available in the examples directory. To install it:
- Drop the file in the syntax directory into runtimepath (such as
~/.vim/syntax/tmux.vim).
- Make the filetype recognisable by adding the following to filetype.vim
(~/.vim/filetype.vim):
augroup filetypedetect
au BufNewFile,BufRead .tmux.conf*,tmux.conf* setf tmux
augroup END
- Switch on syntax highlighting by adding "syntax enable" to .vimrc.
For debugging, running tmux with -v or -vv will generate server and client log
files in the current directory.
tmux mailing lists are available. The visit:
https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=200378
Bug reports, feature suggestions and especially code contributions are most
welcome. Please send by email to:
tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net
This file and the CHANGES, FAQ and TODO files are licensed under the ISC
license. Files under examples/ remain copyright their authors unless otherwise
stated in the file but permission has been received to distribute them with
tmux. All other files have a license and copyright notice at their
start.
-- Nicholas Marriott <nicm@users.sf.net>
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