How To VIM+TMUX

Mon, 05 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Chris Hunt gave a great presentation at LA Ruby Conf about VIM+TMUX. There, he shows you a bunch of cool things you can do with VIM and TMUX.

But he doesn’t tell you how to do them.

So here, I’m going to list each of the things he does and give you the keystrokes/information you need to do what he’s talking about.

TMUX

For these shortcuts, the prefix is mapped to C-b (i.e. Ctrl-b) – though I believe it is much faster and more comfortable to map it to C-a. Chris even maps his to C-j so you use two different hands.

Quick Script for TMUX pair sessions

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Update 2013-06-14: Improved the script, removing the github-auth dependency, some of the OS X dependencies, and added firewall punch-through (user specific) and ssh-command with external IP auto-copy to clipboard

I wanted a quick and easy way to set up a new TMUX session with a brand new pair, so I came up with this:

#!/bin/sh
gh-auth add $1
sudo cp ~/.ssh/authorized_keys /Users/pair/.ssh/authorized_keys
sudo chown pair:staff /Users/pair/.ssh/authorized_keys
gh-auth remove $1
tmux -S /tmp/pairing new -ds pairing && chgrp staff /tmp/pairing && tmux -S /tmp/pairing attach -t pairing
sudo rm -f /Users/pair/.ssh/authorized_keys

That will download ssh keys, create a tmux session, and attach to it. When you’re done it will cleanup so the other person has no access to your box.

Tmux on Bridge

How To VIM+TMUX

TMUX

Quick Script for TMUX pair sessions