The way to do this is to detach from the session (^b d with the default keybindings) and then specify a different directory when you reattach to it. When attaching to a session, use the -c flag to specify the working directory. Here’s an example: $ tmux list-sessions tmuxwtfbbq: 3 windows (created Tue Apr 5 … Read more
warning this can now ‘corrupt’ (make it unable to open a terminal window – which is not good!) your Ubuntu logins. Use with extreme caution and make sure you have a second admin account on the computer that you can log into in case you have the same problems I did. See my other answer … Read more
The man page has very detailed descriptions of all of the various options (the status bar is highly configurable). Your best bet is to read through man tmux and pay particular attention to those options that begin with status-. So, for example, status-bg red would set the background colour of the bar. The three components … Read more
You can do this as follows: bind h select-pane -L bind j select-pane -D bind k select-pane -U bind l select-pane -R Note that mode-keys refers to using vi-like navigation within a buffer and status-keys refers to using vi-like editing within the status bar, but neither refers to switching between panes.
You need to tell tmux that Prefix+a should send the prefix key to the program running in the current pane: bind a send-prefix
From the error message (Nothing in register *), it appears that when you do a plain? p, your instance of Vim is using the * register instead of the unnamed register*. This is probably because your clipboard option includes the value unnamed. When configured this way, Vim will use the * register instead of the unnamed register … Read more
The key names used by send-keys are the same ones that bind-key uses. From the Key Bindings section of the tmux manpage: When specifying keys, most represent themselves (for example ‘A’ to ‘Z’). Ctrl keys may be prefixed with ‘C-’ or ‘^’, and Alt (meta) with ‘M-’. In addition, the following special key names are … Read more
With tmux 2.3+, the b: format modifier shows the “basename” (or “tail”) of a path. set-option -g status-interval 5 set-option -g automatic-rename on set-option -g automatic-rename-format ‘#{b:pane_current_path}’ The FORMATS section of man tmux describes other modifiers, such as #{d:} and even #{s/foo/bar/:}. With tmux 2.2 or older, the basename shell command can be used instead. … Read more
Sorry, I’m trying to convince you to use vim built-in features. To make the copy/paste easy, you can open files in another Tabpages: :tabe /path/to/another/file Use gt or gT to switch Tabpages. Or split the window to edit another file: :sp /path/to/another/file Use Ctrl-ww to switch Windows. To split the window vertically, please use :vsp … Read more
It appears the main problem is with using xterm-256color for $TERM. I switched $TERM to screen-256color and the problem went away.