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Advanced Terminal Tips and Tricks (bitsand.cloud)
40 points by danielklnstein on July 20, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


I really liked this post as it actually did contain stuff that are worthy of the word advanced.


tmux + ssh multiplexing has been a big time saver for me. I have a single script that I run when I open my terminal and I have an entire dashboard to manage my dev environment. Now I just need to figure out copy and paste in tmux lol.


I was thinking the same thing 2 months ago, I used tmux locally and remotely for 5 years with advanced features in bashrc using systemd-run to start sessions and keep them open.

But there were always some problems with copying, terminfo features, truecolors, composed unicode...

And recently I changed my mind about the usefulness of a multiplexer, after all only some remote machines were adapted to my workflow, most of the time I just used it locally and had to deal with multiplexer and terminal issues at the same time.

So I tried Kitty again, Kitty claims that multiplexers are a bad idea and that the terminal can do more and better, and it's right about that. Multiplexers should be replaced by advanced terminals.


In vim mode, it's just LEADER-[ and LEADER-].


Xsel or Xcel is your friend (think pbcopy pbpaste)




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