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Just try to copy text in tmux running in OSX default Terminal, which does not support OSC52 To be 100% correct, sharing with system clipboard works in iTerm2, but just because it supports OSC 52 ANSI escape sequences that let application such as tmux to access and store data in clipboard. If you copy text in tmux, it’s stored in tmux own buffer, and not shared with your OS clipboard by default.It’s more difficult to access it and copy text than in iTerm (just scroll and select with mouse) tmux maintains it’s own scrollback buffer.This makes it easier to migrate to a different terminal emulator, be it on same OS or another one (Linux) When you’re using tmux, you rely on iTerm2 unique features much less.If you’re using tmux both locally and on remote machine, you’d get the same familiar terminal environment.Ability to switch between several per-project local tmux sessions to easily switch context.Even-horizontal, even-vertical, main-horizontal, main-vertical and tiled ITerm has something similar, but it’s only about notifying you when execution returns to command prompt, and requires installing extra shell integration When I run a long-running command in one pane, I can switch to another pane and be notified when no more output appears in previous pane for some interval

Monitor window for activity or silence.These previously were taken by OSX menu bar, iTerm window frame and iTerm tabs row. This which allows me to work in a distraction-free environment and also get extra 3 rows.

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Having status line and set of named windows inside it, I can turn iTerm to full-screen mode.Includes CPU, memory, online/offline status, battery, user, host, and date time. A status line with system-wide information.Similar to tabs in iTerm, but you can give them a name iTerm2 vs tmux on local machine: benefits and drawbacks Benefits: So I’ve decided to give it a try, and today I can share benefits and drawbacks with you. When I was learning tmux, I had been returning to same question again and again. “Given iTerm already can create multiple virtual windows inside a single ‘physical’ window, can split, swap and resize panes, do I really need to use tmux on my local machine instead of iTerm?” Google here, Google there, after a while you grasp concepts like terminal multiplexing, windows, pane splitting, and understand tmux usage on remote machines to persist session state and survive abrupt disconnections.Īt some point of time, you might wondering about tmux usage locally. And you’ve heard about tmux, and decided to give it a try. So you’re using iTerm2 terminal emulator on OSX. tmux experience inside full-screen iTerm with 2 remote sessions nested in a local one This is 2nd part of “ tmux in practice” post series.

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How to set up iTerm2 profile to override key mappings to trigger analogue tmux actions One drastic alternative would be to migrate from Bash to an alternate shell like Fish or, in the future, the Next Generation Shell (NGS).By Alexey Samoshkin tmux in practice: iTerm2 and tmux Benefits and drawbacks of using iterm2 vs tmux locally. It has great tab and pane management accessible via both keyboard and mouse, and some subtle quality of life features.įor example, if you ssh somewhere, it sets the tab title to the hostname of the remote machine, or the name of the local directory. ITerm2 is my terminal of choice on the Mac. This makes it easy to transfer your command line configuration to a new primary machine. I use mackup together with Dropbox to keep my bash and other command line configuration files backed up. This configuration change has to be done per user per machine. In order for your configuration change to take effect, you will need to reload the configuration in all your open terminal sessions: source ~/.bash_profile # After each command, append to the history fileĮxport PROMPT_COMMAND='$history -a history -c history -r' # When the shell exits, append to the history file

# Maximum number of history lines on disk Once you have it open, add these lines at the end: # Maximum number of history lines in memory Open up your ~/.bash_profile configuration file in an editor of your choice such as nano. It’s actually fairly straightforward to preserve the history. Is it possible to configure the terminal to preserve bash history? By default, the last terminal session to close trashes the bash history of all the other sessions. I typically have multiple tabs with multiple terminal panes open in iTerm2, often with multiple ssh sessions running.

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I use the bash command line on my Mac a lot.

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