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If you're on a Mac, try tmux -CC with iTerm2. You get tmux goodness like multiple panes, persistent sessions, etc. But you also get native scrolling, native cop

If you're on a Mac, try tmux -CC with iTerm2. You get tmux goodness like multiple panes, persistent sessions, etc. But you also get native scrolling, native copy and paste, etc. It's what makes tmux usable for me.

locusofself 7y ago
Amen to this. tmux is nifty by itself but the native experience is SO much better.
tandav 7y ago
And with CC mode you'll not need all that complicated shortcuts. (I'm using tmux -CC for 1 year without knowing this shortcuts)
smnrchrds 7y ago
Is there anything similar or comparable available on Windows?
jakestuart 7y ago
tmux -CC really is great on mac, but if it worked with mosh it would be incredible.
- packetslave 7y ago
  EternalTerminal works great as a mosh alternative and fully supports tmux -CC Alternatively, there's apparently a forked version of mosh out there with iterm2 support hacked in, but I've not tried it.
  - jimpudar 7y ago
    The real purpose of mosh is to make remote sessions usable over extremely poor connections (i.e. high latency and loss). EternalTerminal doesn't make your session work nicely from an airplane like mosh does.
- AceJohnny2 7y ago
  The featuresets of Tmux and mosh conflict directly. Unfortunately.
AceJohnny2 7y ago
Absolutely! TMux is pretty great by itself, but it doing its own internal scrolling and copy-pasting, though essential, is a usability frustration. Tmux + iTerm2 is a fantastic combo that takes all of Tmux's pwer and removes all the downsides. I searched if anything else used Tmux's Control Channel on Linux to replicate iTerm2's features, and I'm sad that I found nothing. (Frankly, it's kind of stunning to me that one terminal app on macOS has more useful features than the plethora of me-too terminals on Linux)
- calcifer 7y ago
  > Frankly, it's kind of stunning to me that one terminal app on macOS has more useful features than the plethora of me-too terminals on Linux If by "useful features" you mean intercepting tmux output and having it integrate with the terminal, then no. But more generally, I think the closest thing to iTerm2 on Linux is Tilix [1]. [1] https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/ https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/
- l33tman 7y ago
  Well on a related matter I've been searching for years for a Linux implementation of the bog standard terminal window on my Macbook, that persists scrollback and history for all open tabs during reboots etc. Such an enormously usable thing, why isn't that readily available on Linux?
aloer 7y ago
Iterm2 is the number one Software driving my Mac productivity besides OS X itself. So much of it is lost because work machines have been either windows or Ubuntu. I tried a few things but nothing comes even close to the level of overview and speed you have with iterm. In the end I usually end up using multiple windows and too much mouse.. The tmux integration is just the cherry on top
claudiusd 7y ago
Yes! And it works on remote machines too! SSH somewhere and give it a try

locusofself 7y ago

Amen to this. tmux is nifty by itself but the native experience is SO much better.

tandav 7y ago

And with CC mode you'll not need all that complicated shortcuts. (I'm using tmux -CC for 1 year without knowing this shortcuts)

smnrchrds 7y ago

Is there anything similar or comparable available on Windows?

jakestuart 7y ago

tmux -CC really is great on mac, but if it worked with mosh it would be incredible.

packetslave 7y ago
EternalTerminal works great as a mosh alternative and fully supports tmux -CC Alternatively, there's apparently a forked version of mosh out there with iterm2 support hacked in, but I've not tried it.
- jimpudar 7y ago
  The real purpose of mosh is to make remote sessions usable over extremely poor connections (i.e. high latency and loss). EternalTerminal doesn't make your session work nicely from an airplane like mosh does.
AceJohnny2 7y ago
The featuresets of Tmux and mosh conflict directly. Unfortunately.

AceJohnny2 7y ago

Absolutely! TMux is pretty great by itself, but it doing its own internal scrolling and copy-pasting, though essential, is a usability frustration. Tmux + iTerm2 is a fantastic combo that takes all of Tmux's pwer and removes all the downsides. I searched if anything else used Tmux's Control Channel on Linux to replicate iTerm2's features, and I'm sad that I found nothing. (Frankly, it's kind of stunning to me that one terminal app on macOS has more useful features than the plethora of me-too terminals on Linux)

calcifer 7y ago
> Frankly, it's kind of stunning to me that one terminal app on macOS has more useful features than the plethora of me-too terminals on Linux If by "useful features" you mean intercepting tmux output and having it integrate with the terminal, then no. But more generally, I think the closest thing to iTerm2 on Linux is Tilix [1]. [1] https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/ https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/
l33tman 7y ago
Well on a related matter I've been searching for years for a Linux implementation of the bog standard terminal window on my Macbook, that persists scrollback and history for all open tabs during reboots etc. Such an enormously usable thing, why isn't that readily available on Linux?

aloer 7y ago

Iterm2 is the number one Software driving my Mac productivity besides OS X itself. So much of it is lost because work machines have been either windows or Ubuntu. I tried a few things but nothing comes even close to the level of overview and speed you have with iterm. In the end I usually end up using multiple windows and too much mouse.. The tmux integration is just the cherry on top

claudiusd 7y ago

Yes! And it works on remote machines too! SSH somewhere and give it a try