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Holy cow tmux has changed my life.

No longer do I have to worry about losing all of my process when I accidentally close iTerm. This, coupled with the fact that you can Ctrl-B Ctrl-B and control your tmux within tmux... It's even fairly easy to script and make awesome workflows. Take for instance this script which shows a diff in a left pane and a commit editor in the right pane: https://gist.github.com/nvahalik/36108d4b892b6f66982537235f9...




I am sure you may know this already but iTerm has a prefenrece setting called "Confirm Quit iTerm2 ... command"

Checking it on has saved me quite a bit of trouble.


Yes. But even with that, I've accidentally killed it before via Activity Monitor... still a great tip, though.


I usually run screen within tmux if I need nested virtual terminals.




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