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Getting Started with Tmux

9 min readOct 25, 2024

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Many developers have heard of the tool called tmux. You may not understand what the point of using a tool for terminal multiplexing is or it may just seem too scary for you to get started with. I intend to show you the benefits and also how to configure tmux so you can be more productive and love working in your terminal more.

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Why should I care?

Increased Productivity
- able to move quickly to specific places
- able to have separate and distinct sessions
- able to resume work after a machine restart
— really helpful on remote machines like EC2 instances to perform long running tasks that would end on a session timeout
— screen is deprecated so tmux is preferable to using screen
Increased Focus
Clout / Street cred

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Installing tmux

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Andrew Courter
Andrew Courter

Written by Andrew Courter

Manager of Software Engineering. Writes on Neovim, programming, and building great software. https://andrewcourter.com