Handy configuration tips
What follows are a handful of configuration tips we have picked up throughout the years that are a bit useful and not necessarily obvious even after understanding the mechanics of how to configure tmux. These tips include the following:
- Binding the double tapping of the prefix key to
last-window - Changing the escape time
- Lengthening the history limit
- Lengthening the display time
- Starting the base index at 1
Binding the double tapping of the prefix key to last-window
This is one of our favorite tricks. More often than not, once you switch to a window and see some information, you want to switch back to the one you came from.
As the title here implies, this can be made very easy by creating a key binding for the prefix key that performs ...
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