ghostbar » tmux http://ghostbar.ath.cx Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:49:36 +0000 en hourly 1 and issues on vim with $TERM=”screen” http://ghostbar.ath.cx/2011/10/26/and-issues-on-vim-with-termscreen/ http://ghostbar.ath.cx/2011/10/26/and-issues-on-vim-with-termscreen/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2011 05:06:51 +0000 ghostbar http://ghostbar.ath.cx/?p=622 Because of tmux I run with $TERM=”screen” instead of my regular rxvt-unicode, but I had a big issue with VIM because of this, it kept writing and F\n and H\n each time I pressed and keys respectively. I finally found the way to solve this, making VIM use $TERM=”xterm” internally writing this on my ~/.vimrc:
if &term == "screen"
set term=xterm
endif

So, this way, even in my servers without XTerm installed (but ncurses-term) I can use VIM as I’m used to.

]]> http://ghostbar.ath.cx/2011/10/26/and-issues-on-vim-with-termscreen/feed/ 1 Moving from Screen to Tmux http://ghostbar.ath.cx/2011/10/02/moving-from-screen-to-tmux/ http://ghostbar.ath.cx/2011/10/02/moving-from-screen-to-tmux/#comments Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:16:30 +0000 ghostbar http://ghostbar.ath.cx/?p=616 I’ve been a long-time user of GNU Screen, as almost every person I know that spend a lot of time in a terminal.

I must admit I was happy, I really was. I was used to my workflow with 4 terminals 8×25 and a bunch of screens, with several nested-screens. I used awesome-wm before, so definitely I felt I wasn’t using all the space in my laptop screen (my laptop is a ThinkPad X61, so 1024×768 in a 12 inches-screen) but that was OK, after all my workflow was, well, good.

Until 2 days ago, I was told to try tmux, in fact, I was told «and why are you using screen? use tmux». As a daily-user of Screen my first reaction was «I’m used to», «I can use it as I want», and a lot of excuses for just not trying something new. But then I made a little research (on Google, of course). In about 30 minutes I ended up with a multiplexer working as I wanted and as I never got Screen to work. Finally I was using just a terminal and using all the space available in my tiny-laptop-screen and plus: saving a lot of bandwidth with my permanent SSH connection (a really big plus now that I’m living with a capped link to the net with a GSM-modem).

I changed the Ctrl-b shortcut to Ctrl-a (b is too far for using it with only one hand), configured so I could use nested tmux’es like screen when I push Ctrl-a a, activated visual monitoring and even got to use the tmux’s buffer along with my X11 buffer when I press Ctrl-a >!!

It’s all in my ~/.tmux.conf, use it at will. Later I will make a screencast about using tmux, so more people can get a working tmux easily.

ATM, I’m even more happy than I was with GNU Screen, so, any other recommendation, people?

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