hi there,
old habits die hard, but i wouldn't mind drowning screen(1)..
so i am biting the bullet and trying to convert my spartan
.screenrc to .tmux.conf, this mail being the result of that
process, hopefully seen as constructive criticism...
a cosmetic start, i personally think that '.tmuxrc' might be
a better name as it runs commands as opposed to simple
configuration.. also, in openbsd i came to associate most .conf
files with a man page as well... (i have typed man tmux.conf now
for the 15th time, sigh)
the first feature that i would like to turn off is how tmux
resizes my putty window to strict 80 columns, probably based on
COLUMNS. but COLUMNS is lying, i set my windows size in putty to
100x25 and the shell doesn't pick it up at login time... it's not
a big deal really because many programs (like mc) do pick up the
"real" geometry and adapt...
for tmux to dethrone screen, basically i need these to work the
very same way (maaany years of pavlov reflexes in these), taken
from screen (my prefix is x):
C-x space: next screen
C-x backspace: previous screen
C-x i: info (i have status turned off but sometimes need
to peek at where i am, screen(1) outputs:
(23,14)/(99,26)+1024 +flow app mouse bce G0[B0BB] 2(ksh)
perhaps a "window-info" equivalent in tmux?
C-x ": windowlist -b (a very brief, barebone list of all
the windows with their titles)
C-x C-x: last active window
copy mode
visual bell with configurable text
so i proceeded to try to convert this into tmux syntax:
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set-option -g prefix C-x
set-option -g status off
unbind-key C-b
bind-key C-x send-prefix
bind-key C-x last
bind-key ' ' next # not working, i must hit C-x C-space
# bind-key previous # i have no idea how to bind backspace
bind-key " list-windows # this is not working, still does split-window
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(space looks kind of confusing in C-x ? as well...)
so i am not doing very well at the moment..
some other random issues:
- most of the set-option commands do not state what is their
default behaviour in the man page.. (like bell-action, etc)
- the error/warning messages in the status line disappear so fast,
i have no chance of reading them (status is turned off
otherwise)
- socket_path (also in $TMUX) contains double slash
(/tmp//tmux-1000/default, debug level 0)
- no matter what i do, i can't make vim colorful.. TERM=screen
just like with screen, but screen defines a TERMCAP as well.
even if i do export TERM=rxvt, still everything is b&w..
how are the other screen guys doing? lots of pain? ;]
-f
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does the name "pavlov" ring a bell?
