This configuration instructs your local machine for all user ssh sessions to send a server alive message every 300 seconds to keep the ssh session alive.

Make ssh “keep alive” for all connections by adding this to ~/.ssh/config: host * Tmux is highly configurable but the first change I’d recommend is to ssh, not Tmux.

Setupįirst you’ll need to install Tmux via your package manager or download it. If you do most of your programming at the command line, you’ll find using a terminal multiplexer invaluable. You can manage several terminals under a session, split terminal screens, detach and re-attach sessions and much more. This 10 minute video shows how I manage all of these projects on the command line.Tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it’s like a power-up for terminal programming. This is what I came up with in the end, and it’s been working great so far.Īs a freelance developer, open source enthusiast and someone who likes hacking on my own projects, it’s no surprise that I have a lot of active projects. While figuring all of this out, I occasionally struggled between choosing to launch multiple terminal applications, tmux sessions, windows, split panes, Vim buffers and / or tabs. Now that I’ve been using Vim for a few months, I figured it would be a good time to share my day to day work flow on how I’m using it with tmux (something I’ve been using for years).

Quick Jump: Demo Video Showing How It Works Updated on June 18th, 2019 in #dev-environment, #linux, #vim Using tmux Sessions, Windows, Panes and Vim Buffers Together Here's a short video going over how I switch between a dozen software projects in seconds using nothing but my terminal, tmux and Vim.

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