Cheat-sheet for tmux

tmux-cheatsheet.md

tmux Cheat Sheet

Session management

Creating sessions

• tmux - creates a new session
• tmux new-session - also creates a new session
• tmux new-session -s foo - creates a new session named foo
• tmux new -s foo - also creates a new session named foo

Detaching from a running session

• PREFIX d

Renaming a running session

• PREFIX $

Listing existing sessions

• tmux list sessions
• tmux ls
• PREFIX s

Attaching to existing sessions

• tmux attach - attach to most recently used session
• tmux attach -t foo - attach to session named foo

Killing existing sessions

• tmux kill-session -t foo

Window management

Creating windows

• PREFIX c - creates a session within a running tmux session

Navigating windows

• PREFIX n - next window
• PREFIX p - previous window
• PREFIX 0 - jump to window 0 (works with any digit 0-9)
• PREFIX f - find window (by name)
• PREFIX w - choose window from a list

Closing windows

• PREFIX & - prompt to close current window

Naming windows

• PREFIX , - prompt to name current window

Pane management

Creating panes

• PREFIX % - split vertically
• PREFIX " - split horizontally

Navigating panes

• PREFIX o - next pane
• PREFIX <arrow key> - switch to pane above, below, to the left, or to the right

Pane layouts

Default layouts

• even-horizontal
• even-vertical
• main-horizontal
• main-vertical
• tiled

You can cycle through these PREFIX <spacebar>

Re-arranging pane layouts

• PREFIX C-o - rotate the panes in the current window forwards
• PREFIX M-o - rotate the panes in the current window backwards

Closing panes

• PREFIX x

Turing a pane into a new window

• PREFIX !

Turning a window into a pane

In command mode (PREFIX :):

• join-pane -s [session-name]:[window-number].[pane-number]

Zooming (maximizing) the current pane

• PREFIX z - this toggles the zoomed state

Command Mode

• PREFIX : - enter command mode

Within command mode, you can issue commands:

• new-window -n bar - create a new window called bar
• new-window -n bar "top" - create a new window called bar and execute top

Copy and Paste

• PREFIX [ - enter Copy Mode.

  within Copy Mode, you can:

  • ENTER - exit Copy Mode
  • SPACE - start a selection at the current cursor position

Movement (with vi mode enabled)

• CONTROL-B - back a page
• CONTROL-F - forward a page