Tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
A gem for every productivity perfectionist. Tabs are inefficient, multiplexers as tmux/screen are the future!Screen users may find tmux as a downgrade at start, since the default keybinds are a nightmare, but with tmux: Productive Mouse-Free development, you can tweak every bit of tmux to make full use of all its features, succeeding GNU screen.Extra credits for mentioning workflow, pair programming and awesome tools as tmuxinator that are an absolute need for the perfect automation. I find it hard to review this mini-book without diverting into a 'review' of tmux itself. I first heard of tmux via iTerm2's integration, ran into it again with this book announcement, Googled around and saw some good press. OpenBSD association didn't hurt either. Ended up using it for a long MySQL backup with a dialed-up history buffer to scroll back and see what was happening, very helpful. Anyway, I think the book is strangely good at being transparent as a material and simply teaching the tool.As for the tool itself, I have to say that I'm disappointed with the amount of customization that appears commonly and understandably desired just to rid oneself of annoying default bindings or set no-brainer new ones. I hope more of that will be incorporated. That there are external tools just for managing configs, I find as much of a statement on popularity as I do potential for native improvement.As an admin, I don't see myself going berserk with features or usage; in a lot of instances, I don't have the luxury of porting around my own handy-dandy config, and I still want to remember how to actually use it with all-default settings.This book told me almost everything I wanted to know - I felt that iTerm2 coverage was suspiciously absent, given that the book also targets OS X. I'll ask the author about that. I REALLY like this no-fluff/inexpensive 100-ish page format for these kind of subjects. Hope it takes off even more.
What do You think about Tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development (2012)?
Very good reading. It's a short book, but covers all the basics with a good level of explanation.
—SweetHeartLivvy
Simple and to the point. Helped me get started with tmux in a good way.
—JoshuaHeriot
Very good and comprehensive guide to use tmux day-to-day.
—Susan1973
Excellent intro to an awesome tool.
—flyfallenangel
