Customizing Your Workflow
Throughout the book, you’ve added your own configuration options and changed how tmux looks, but there are additional ways to make tmux work for you. You can hook into tmux’s lifecycle events, and you can add community-developed plugins. Start by defining your own popup menu that holds your most-used shortcuts.
Accessing Shortcuts Through a Popup Menu
tmux relies on a lot of keyboard shortcuts. If you memorize those, you can move quickly through a lot of tasks. But sometimes, you might want to have some common commands readily accessible so you can select what you want.
You can build a custom popup menu like this, containing any options you would like:
You build this popup menu with the display-menu command. To ...
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