> Tmux is great if you need any more than 1 terminal window open at once - just remap some of its hotkeys to stuff that make more sense for you (e.g. I use "Alt

> Tmux is great if you need any more than 1 terminal window open at once - just remap some of its hotkeys to stuff that make more sense for you (e.g. I use "Alt + |" to split vertically and "Alt + -" (minus) to split horizontally). Nice tip! While I don't mind the default Tmux keybindings (<prefix> " and prefix % for horizontal and vertical splits), one thing that used to annoy me early on was how new panes would default to the directory where Tmux was originally launched, rather than inheriting the current working directory. Fortunately it was easy to fix with a few lines of code in ~/.tmux.conf: bind '"' split-window -c "#{pane_current_path}" bind % split-window -h -c "#{pane_current_path}" bind c new-window -c "#{pane_current_path}" This ensures that while splitting a pane with <prefix> " or <prefix> %, or while creating a new window with <prefix> c, the new shell inherits the working directory of the previous pane. This small tweak saved me countless unnecessary "cd" commands.