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So as a user of emacs, a user of tmux, and the soon to be recipient of a dell XPS 13 which I intend to dock at home with a very big screen and use with Xmonad..

So as a user of emacs, a user of tmux, and the soon to be recipient of a dell XPS 13 which I intend to dock at home with a very big screen and use with Xmonad... Do I need tmux? It seems to fall between the gaps between easily switching between panes and applications, which you can do with Xmonad and what you can do with buffers in emacs. With my previous setup I used tmux to run all my deamons (web servers I was developing on, continuous coffeescript and less building etc) in one terminal, but I'm not sure there was a huge benefit vs just opening a new terminal for each process (in hte same workspace) and using Xmonad to manage the layoutt/switching. Am I missing a trick here?

mercurial 13y ago
It's useful if you need to connect to a remote server and leave stuff running after you disconnect. Otherwise... you already have a window manager.
- spolu 13y ago
  I definitely agree that the multi window/pane feature of tmux can be repetitive of your window manager, especially if you use a tiled window manager. But at the same time I keep thinking that most people do not use their window manager to manager their browser tabs (despite the existence of surf (http://surf.suckless.org/ http://surf.suckless.org/). Why? Not sure...
  - mercurial 13y ago
    It's much more useful to have several terminals displayed on the same screen. On the other hand, 20-30 tabs? Not so much.
spolu 13y ago
Tmux can be extremely useful to bootstrap a working environment rapidly. We use it to connect to our mongo replica set rapidly without having to ssh into each machine. See the comments below there are a few tools to help you do that. Tmux is also extremely useful for pair programming: you can multiplex PTYs but you can also have multiple screens attached to the same session. It's a killer feature especially when working remotely with your team.

mercurial 13y ago

It's useful if you need to connect to a remote server and leave stuff running after you disconnect. Otherwise... you already have a window manager.

spolu 13y ago
I definitely agree that the multi window/pane feature of tmux can be repetitive of your window manager, especially if you use a tiled window manager. But at the same time I keep thinking that most people do not use their window manager to manager their browser tabs (despite the existence of surf (http://surf.suckless.org/ http://surf.suckless.org/). Why? Not sure...
- mercurial 13y ago
  It's much more useful to have several terminals displayed on the same screen. On the other hand, 20-30 tabs? Not so much.

spolu 13y ago

Tmux can be extremely useful to bootstrap a working environment rapidly. We use it to connect to our mongo replica set rapidly without having to ssh into each machine. See the comments below there are a few tools to help you do that. Tmux is also extremely useful for pair programming: you can multiplex PTYs but you can also have multiple screens attached to the same session. It's a killer feature especially when working remotely with your team.