Preface

tmux is rapidly becoming the de facto standard with regards to terminal multiplexers with its breadth of features and ease of configuration. It is one of the fastest growing tools in the developer's toolkit due to its power in maximizing the productivity of a terminal window. Developers spending a large amount of time in the terminal will benefit greatly from learning how to utilize tmux and its powerful features. By taking a single terminal window and turning it into multiple windows, each with their own state, tmux is like a supercharger for your console.

We will begin with a simple introduction to tmux and learn some ways in which it can help increase productivity in your daily terminal usage. From there, we'll move on to configuring ...

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