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I use iTerm2 on macOS. I don’t know why one uses tmux or this. What I am missing?

himujjal 4y ago
Exactly my point. I just am happy with iTerm2. On windows it was Windows terminal. On Linux, I was using Konsole (KDE). Just more than enough
d3ckard 4y ago
Multiplexers are useful when logging to a remote server. You can open a bunch of things without separate ssh session for each and you avoid issues with breaking connections cancelling your long time jobs (got me a couple of times when migrating data).
- maratc 4y ago
  iTerm2 has tmux support where a tmux session on a remote server would be rendered with native iTerm2 panes. https://iterm2.com/documentation-tmux-integration.html https://iterm2.com/documentation-tmux-integration.html
Myrmornis 4y ago
I also use iTerm2 on macOS, with tmux. Here are the main reasons why I do that: - I can create window splits running multiple shell sessions in each pane, and then "zoom" in to an individual pane to focus on what I'm doing in that shell session. - I can organize my work into named sessions, with multiple windows within each session, and panes within each window, and navigate between these using the keyboard. - I can persist that session/window/pane structure across machine reboots (tmux-resurrect). The result is that I always have the same set of tmux shell sessions running, corresponding to the different projects that I work on. - The same keybindings for session/window/pane management work whether I'm on MacOS or on a remote linux machine running tmux. But I'm not a very advanced tmux user and there's a lot more I could do. If you look through the tmux feature set it will give you an idea of what you can do beyond what you can do with iTerm2. iTerm2 does have its own "tmux integration mode" but that's never quite appealed to me: I use tmux specifically because I want the tmux style of window splits etc, and because I want the familiar keybindings to be the same when I'm on a linux machine. So placing tmux behind the iTerm2 UI isn't what I'm personally looking for. I think! Or maybe I've misunderstood the iTerm2 feature.

Exactly my point. I just am happy with iTerm2. On windows it was Windows terminal. On Linux, I was using Konsole (KDE). Just more than enough

d3ckard 4y ago

Multiplexers are useful when logging to a remote server. You can open a bunch of things without separate ssh session for each and you avoid issues with breaking connections cancelling your long time jobs (got me a couple of times when migrating data).

maratc 4y ago
iTerm2 has tmux support where a tmux session on a remote server would be rendered with native iTerm2 panes. https://iterm2.com/documentation-tmux-integration.html https://iterm2.com/documentation-tmux-integration.html

Myrmornis 4y ago

I also use iTerm2 on macOS, with tmux. Here are the main reasons why I do that: - I can create window splits running multiple shell sessions in each pane, and then "zoom" in to an individual pane to focus on what I'm doing in that shell session. - I can organize my work into named sessions, with multiple windows within each session, and panes within each window, and navigate between these using the keyboard. - I can persist that session/window/pane structure across machine reboots (tmux-resurrect). The result is that I always have the same set of tmux shell sessions running, corresponding to the different projects that I work on. - The same keybindings for session/window/pane management work whether I'm on MacOS or on a remote linux machine running tmux. But I'm not a very advanced tmux user and there's a lot more I could do. If you look through the tmux feature set it will give you an idea of what you can do beyond what you can do with iTerm2. iTerm2 does have its own "tmux integration mode" but that's never quite appealed to me: I use tmux specifically because I want the tmux style of window splits etc, and because I want the familiar keybindings to be the same when I'm on a linux machine. So placing tmux behind the iTerm2 UI isn't what I'm personally looking for. I think! Or maybe I've misunderstood the iTerm2 feature.