Basic configuration

There are a few options to use set.

• set-option: an alias of a set
• -s: server option
• -g: global option
• setw or set-window-option: window option

See StackExchange: Difference between global, server, session and window options for more details about these options and how they’re effective.

Other references

• Stack overflow: What are the differences between set -g, set -ga and set-option -g in a .tmux.conf file?.

Plugin management

TPM is a plugin to install plugins easily for tmux.

However, in some cases, plugins aren’t installed correctly. As a workaround, they can be installed by running ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/scripts/install_plugins.sh, reported by this issue.

Copy and paste plugin

Use a plugin tmux-yank. In order to set the shortcut key same as emacs, set @copy_mode_yank to “M-w”, like set -g @copy_mode_yank "M-w"

Session and window management

• To rename the current session, type Prefix + $ or Prefix + : and type rename-session <new session name>
• To rename the current window, type Prefix + , or Prefix + : and type rename-window <new window name>
• To create new session, type :new or :new -s <session name>
• To search a window, type Prefix + f
  • In order to use fuzzy support like fzf, see this article or this github wiki for reference.

Start specific windows automatically

tmuxinator enables to create windows and manage them by configurations

• Install

  brew install tmuxinator

• Set up an environment variable

  set -Ux EDITOR vim

• Create new project of tmuxinator

  tmuxinator new $PROJECT_NAME

• Start a session of the project

  tmuxinator start $PROJECT_NAME