On: Getting started with Tmux

[marcosdumay]

I never saw the need to configure tmux.

I have tried to configure bash for better use it (including launching it automatically) but then gave up due to not enough gain. But I never saw a need to configure tmux itself.

I can't say the same about screen. At a minimum, there's an inherent incompatibility between it and emacs.

[ElevenLathe → marcosdumay]

Here's my entire .screenrc:

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## Control-^ (usually Control-Shift-6) is traditionally the only key chord not used by emacs

escape ^^^^

## disable all the 1970s era "flow control" operations so I can actually use emacs

defflow off

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The first line sets the prefix key to C-M-6 which is not used by emacs. The second turns off the "ctl-f" flow control stuff so emacs gets that chord. I then use emacs itself for all "window" management and terminal multiplexing.

[kurtisc → marcosdumay]

It seems to me that people tend towards wanting to configure programs like these before they really grok them. Vim is another: I don't think it needs 100 plugins to fulfil its purpose.

[barrkel → marcosdumay]

Emacs works perfectly well for me inside screen, but not inside tmux. In tmux, many of the extended keys aren't quite right.

I run urxvt.

I also have custom fixes for rxvt that I've built up over the years, both a custom terminfo file, and fixes for emacs' terminal mapping.

I'm willing to bet your "inherent incompatibility" is a terminfo or similar terminal code interpretation problem.

[arminiusreturns → barrkel]

I also run screen emacs and urxvt. For what it's worth I choose screen over tmux mostly because I've worked fairly hard at keeping most of my stack gpl.