sbargy / tmux_cheatsheet

My personal cheatsheet for tmux, the terminal multiplexer

tmux cheatsheet

Based on tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development (The Pragmatic Progammers - Brian P. Hogan).

Shell command	Description
tmux new-session -s sessionname tmux new -s sessionname	Create a named session called sessionname
tmux new -s sessionname -d top	Create detached session and run top inside
tmux new -s sessionname -n win	Create session sessionname with window win
tmux list-sessions tmux ls
tmux attach
tmux attach -t sessionname	Attach to session with name sessionname
tmux kill-session -t sessionname
tmux has-session -t sessionname	Returns 0 if session exists

PREFIX (CTRL-b) + …	Description	Custom mapping
d	Detach
:	Enter command mode
?	See all keybindings
r	Reload config file (.tmux.conf)	yes
(	Switch to next session
)	Switch to previous session
s	Show session menu
$	Rename session
P	Toggle logging output to ~/window_name.log	yes
ESCAPE	Enter copy mode
p	Paste from buffer
CTRL-c	Copy buffer to MAC clipboard

Windows

PREFIX (CTRL-b) + …	Description	Custom mapping
c	Create window
,	Rename window
n	Go to next window
CTRL-h, CTRL-l	Select next/previous window	yes
0	Go to window no 0
1	Go to window no 1
f	Find window by name
w	Select window by menu
&	Kill window (after confirmation)
.	Move window to another session

Panes

PREFIX (CTRL-b) + …	Description	Custom mapping
%	Split horizontally
PIPE	Split horizontally	yes
"	Split vertically
-	Split vertically	yes
o	Cycle through panes
h, j, k, l	Select next pane in vim-direction	yes
SPACE	Cycle pane layout (even-horizontal, even-vertical, main-horizontal, main-vertical, tiled)
H, J, K, L	Resize pane in vim-direction (5 column-wise)	yes
!	Move active pane to a new window
z	Zoom pane	tmux 1.8
UP	Maximize pane	yes
DOWN	Redo maximize pane	yes
x	Kill pane (after confirmation)

Command mode

Command	Description
new-window -n redis "redis-server"	Open new window, name it windowname and run redis-server in it.
capture-pane	Copy entire visible contents of pane into the paste buffer
show-buffer	Show contents of actual buffer
save-buffer file.txt	Save buffer to file.txt
list-buffers	Show all buffers
choose-buffer	Chosse a buffer and paste
join-pane -s source_session_name:1.1	Move pane 1 in window 1 of session source_session_name to the actual window`
join-pane -s src_sess:2.1 -t dst_sess:1.1	Move pane 1 in window 2 of session src_sess to session dst_session in window 1 near pane 1`

Copy mode

Key	Description
h, j, k, l	Move around
ENTER	Leave copy mode
w	Jump to next word
b	Jump to previous word
fA	Jump to next A in the actual line
FA	Jump to previous A in the actual line
CTRL-b	Down one page
CTRL-f	Up one page
g	Jump to top of buffer
G	Jump to bottom of buffer
?	Backward search
/	Foreward search
n	Go to next occurence
N	Go to previous occurence
SPACE	Begin selecting text
v	Begin selecting text
y	Copy selection to buffer

More

• ~/.tmux.conf
• tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development.
• Man page