Re: zsh : launch tmux in just one terminal

[Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com>]

On 2021-10-01 04:34 PM, zzapper wrote:
> On 01/10/2021 21:16, Ray Andrews wrote:
>> On 2021-10-01 10:43 a.m., Bart Schaefer wrote:
>>> 
>>> Just make it:  pgrep -u $USER tmux
>>> 
>> If it's not too far off topic, what's the advantage of tmux over just 
>> a whole bunch of xterms?

One huge advantage is the ability to switch very quickly between 
different terminals. This is great when you have a lot of vim terminals 
open when you are doing development work. You can also group the 
different terminals into windows and the windows into sessions, offering 
an insane amount of organization. Organizing let's say 50 different 
shells is a breeze.

It's especially useful when you ssh into another machine. You run a tmux 
session on the remote machine. If you get disconnected or power your 
local machine down, you can log back in and be right back where you 
were. This can also be done locally with a plugin, tmux resurrect. So if 
your computer goes down, your terminals will be right there when you 
fire up tmux so you can jump back into working.

There's many more advantages, but these are the big ones.