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The Tao of tmux by Tony Narlock

This book is available for free to read on the web at <https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/read>.

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Contents:

• Foreword
  • About this book
  • Styles
  • How this book is structured
  • Donations
  • Formats
  • Errata {#errata}
  • Thanks
  • Book Updates and tmux changes
• Thinking in tmux {#thinking-tmux}
  • Window manager for the terminal
  • Multitasking
  • Keep your applications running in the background
  • Powerful combos
  • Summary
• Terminal fundamentals {#terminal-fundamentals}
  • POSIX standards
  • Terminal interface
  • Terminal emulators
  • Shell languages {#shell-languages}
  • Shell interpreters (Shells) {#shells}
  • Summary
• Practical usage {#practical-usage}
  • The prefix key {#prefix-key}
  • Session persistence and the server model
  • It’s all commands
  • Summary
• Server {#server}
  • What? tmux is a server?
  • Zero config needed
  • Stayin’ alive
  • Servers hold sessions
  • How servers are “named”
  • Clients
  • Clipboard {#clipboard}
  • Summary
• Sessions {#sessions}
  • Creating a session
  • Switching sessions within tmux
  • Naming sessions
  • Does my session exist?
  • Summary
• Windows {#windows}
  • Creating windows
  • Naming windows
  • Traversing windows
  • Moving windows
  • Layouts {#window-layouts}
  • Closing windows
  • Summary
• Panes {#panes}
  • Creating new panes
  • Traversing Panes {#pane-traversal}
  • Zoom in {#zoom-pane}
  • Resizing panes {#resizing-panes}
  • Outputting pane to a file
  • Summary
• Configuration {#config}
  • Reloading configuration {#reload-config}
  • How configs work
  • Server options
  • Session options
  • Window options
  • Keybindings
• Status bar and styling {#status-bar}
  • Window status symbols
  • Date and time
  • Shell command output
  • Styling
  • Styling while using tmux
  • Toggling status line
  • Example: Default config
  • Example: Dressed up {#status-bar-example-dressed-up}
  • Example: Powerline
  • Summary
• Scripting tmux {#scripting-tmux}
  • Aliases {#aliases}
  • Pattern matching {#fnmatch}
  • Targets {#targets}
  • Formats {#formats}
  • Controlling tmux {#send-keys}
  • Capturing pane content {#capture-pane}
  • Summary
• Tips and tricks {#tips-and-tricks}
  • Read the tmux manual in style
  • Log tailing
  • File watching {#file-watching}
  • Session Managers {#session-manager}
  • More code and examples {#example-projects}
  • tmux-plugins and tpm
• Takeaway {#takeaway}
• Appendix: Cheatsheets {#appendix-cheatsheets}
  • Commands
  • Keybindings
  • Formats {#appendix-formats}
• Appendix: Installing tmux {#appendix-installation}
  • macOS / OS X
  • Linux
  • BSD
  • Windows 10
• Appendix: tmux on Windows 10 {#appendix-windows-bash}
• Appendix: Troubleshooting {#appendix-troubleshooting}
  • E353: Nothing in register * when pasting on vim
  • tmuxp: command not found and powerline: command not found {#troubleshoot-site-paths}

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