> tmux

terminal multiplexer — manage sessions, windows, and panes from a single terminal

sessions windows panes copy mode misc help

// sessions

16 commands

Start a new session

Start a new session with the name mysession

$ tmux new -s mysession

Start a new session or attach to an existing session named mysession

$ tmux new-session -A -s mysession

Attach to last session

Attach to a session with the name mysession

$ tmux a -t mysession

Show all sessions

Session and Window Preview

Detach from session

Choose which client to detach

Move to previous session

Move to next session

kill/delete the current session

: kill-session

kill/delete session mysession

$ tmux kill-ses -t mysession

kill/delete all sessions but the current

$ tmux kill-session -a

Kill tmux server and all sessions

$ tmux kill-server

// windows

15 commands

start a new session with the name mysession and window mywindow

$ tmux new -s mysession -n mywindow

Rename current window

Close current window

Previous window

Switch/select window by number

Ctrl + b0...9

Toggle last active window

Prompt for a window index to select

Find window by name

Move current window to a specific index

Reorder window, swap window number 2(src) and 1(dst)

: swap-window -s 2 -t 1

Move current window to the left by one position

: swap-window -t -1

Move window to another session

: move-window -s src_ses:win -t target_ses:win

Renumber windows to remove gap in the sequence

: move-window -r

// panes

19 commands

Split the current pane with a vertical line to create a horizontal layout

: split-window -h

Split the current pane with a horizontal line to create a vertical layout

: split-window -v

Close current pane

Toggle pane zoom

Switch to pane to the direction

Switch to next pane

Toggle last active pane

Show pane numbers

Switch/select pane by number

Ctrl + bq0...9

Rotate panes in current window

Ctrl + bCtrl + o

Move the current pane left

Move the current pane right

Convert pane into a window

Toggle between pane layouts

Ctrl + bSpacebar

Resize current pane height(holding second key is optional)

Resize current pane width(holding second key is optional)

Resize current pane by 5 cells at a time

Ctrl + bAlt + ↑

Join two windows as panes (Merge window 2 to window 1 as panes)

: join-pane -s 2 -t 1

Toggle synchronize-panes(send command to all panes)

: setw synchronize-panes

// copy mode

17 commands

Use vi keys in buffer

: setw -g mode-keys vi

Enter copy mode

Enter copy mode and scroll one page up

q

g

Go to bottom line

G

Scroll half page up / down

/

Search backward

?

Next / previous keyword occurrence

n

Start selection

Clear selection

Paste contents of buffer_0

Copy entire visible contents of pane to a buffer

: capture-pane

Show all buffers

: list-buffers

Show all buffers and paste selected

: choose-buffer

// misc

9 commands

Enter command mode

Set OPTION for all sessions

: set -g OPTION

Set OPTION for all windows

: setw -g OPTION

Enable mouse mode

: set mouse on

Reload tmux configuration

$ tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf

Set window numbering to start at 1

: set -g base-index 1

Set scrollback buffer limit

: set -g history-limit 10000

Send keys to a pane

$ tmux send-keys -t mysession:0 'ls -la' Enter

Clear pane scrollback history

: clear-history

// help

4 commands

List key bindings(shortcuts)

$ tmux list-keys

Show every session, window, pane, etc...

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