Using wemux to ease multiuser experience

Another fantastic utility built by the community is wemux. It seeks to simplify the multiuser experience in tmux. As we saw in the last chapter, setting tmux up for pair programming is an awesome feature of tmux. It builds upon that experience, making it easier to configure and adds some very useful functionality.

Jump on over to the wemux GitHub page to get started and install wemux:

https://github.com/zolrath/wemux

If you are in an active tmux session, detach it before proceeding with <Prefix>, d.

Now let's jump into wemux. From your terminal, run the following command:

$ wemux start

Boom! But wait, you may say that this looks exactly like tmux. You would be right, wemux is a wrapper around tmux so it is ...

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