Title: Tmux mastery | |
Author: Solène | |
Date: 05 July 2018 | |
Tags: unix shell | |
Description: | |
Tips for using Tmux more efficiently | |
### Enter in copy mode | |
By default Tmux uses the emacs key-bindings, to make a selection you | |
need to enter in `copy-mode` by pressing Ctrl+b and then [ with Ctrl+b | |
being the tmux prefix key, if you changed it then do the replacement | |
while reading. | |
If you need to quit the copy-mode, type **Ctrl+C**. | |
### Make a selection | |
While in copy-mode, selects your start or ending position for your | |
selection and then press Ctrl+Space to start the selection. Now, move | |
your cursor to select the text and press Ctrl+w to validate. | |
### Paste a selection | |
When you want to paste your selection, press Ctrl+b ] (you should not | |
be in copy-mode for this!). | |
### Make a rectangular selection | |
If you want to make a rectangular selection, press Ctrl+space to | |
start and immediately, press R (capitalized R), then move your cursor | |
and validate with Ctrl+w. | |
### Output the buffer to X buffer | |
Make a selection to put the content in tmux buffer, then type | |
tmux save-buffer - | xclip | |
You may want to look at xclip (it's a package) man page. | |
### Output the buffer to a file | |
tmux save-buffer file | |
### Load a file into buffer | |
It's possible to load the content of a file inside the buffer for | |
pasting it somewhere. | |
tmux load-buffer file | |
You can also load into the buffer the output of a command, using a | |
pipe and - as a file like in this example: | |
echo 'something very interesting' | tmux load-buffer - | |
### Display the battery percentage in the status bar | |
If you want to display your battery percentage and update it every | |
40 seconds, you can add two following lines in `~/.tmux.conf`: | |
set status-interval 40 | |
set -g status-right "#[fg=colour155]#(apm -l)%% | #[fg=colour45]%d | |
%b %R" | |
This example works on OpenBSD using **apm** command. You can reuse | |
this example to display others informations. |