Personally I find tmux’s default split keys to be a bit obtuse, personally I like to use hyphen and pipe for horizontal and vertical splits. Likewise i enable

Personally I find tmux’s default split keys to be a bit obtuse, personally I like to use hyphen and pipe for horizontal and vertical splits. Likewise i enable vim keybindings, mouse mode, and if you use a Mac and iTerm selecting text will automatically drop it into your clipboard ready to paste. I tend to make use of the following command - which will output the last 100000 lines of the current pane to a text file local to you; it’s useful for documenting screwups, maintenance work, and of course making notes on what you’ve done for future reference > bind-key P command-prompt -p 'save history to filename:' -I '~/tmux.history' 'capture-pane -S -100000 ; save-buffer %1 ; delete-buffer'