tmux 1.8

tmux is an open source "terminal multiplexer" tool that allows a number of windows to be created, accessed and controlled from a single terminal.

tmux is intended to be a simple and modern alternative to software such as GNU screen.


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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Incompatible Changes:

· layout redo/undo has been removed.

Normal Changes:

· Add halfpage up/down bindings to copy mode.
· Session choosing fixed to work with unattached sessions.
· New window options window-status-last-{attr,bg,fg} to denote the last window which was active.
· Scrolling in copy-mode now scrolls the region without moving the mouse cursor.
· run-shell learnt '-t' to specify the pane to use when displaying output.
· Support for middle-click pasting.
· choose-tree learns '-u' to start uncollapsed.
· select-window learnt '-T; to toggle to the last window if it's already current.
· New session option 'assume-paste-time' for pasting text versus key-binding actions.
· choose-* commands now work outside of an attached client.
· Aliases are now shown for list-commands command.
· Status learns about formats.
· Free-form options can be set with set-option if prepended with an '@' sign.
· capture-pane learnt '-p' to send to stdout, and '-e' for capturing escape sequences, and '-a' to capture the alternate screen, and '-P' to dump pending output.
· Many new formats added (client_session, client_last_session, etc.)
· Control mode, which is a way for a client to send tmux commands. Currently more useful to users of iterm2.
· resize-pane learnt '-x' and '-y' for absolute pane sizing.
· Config file loading now reports errors from all files which are loaded via the 'source-file' command.
· 'copy-pipe' mode command to copy selection and pipe the selection to a command.
· Changes panes can now emit focus notifications for certain applications which use those.
· run-shell and if-shell now accept format placeholders.
· resize-pane learnt '-Z' for zooming a pane temporarily.
· new-session learnt '-A' to make it behave like attach-session.
· set-option learnt '-o' to prevent setting an option which is already set.
· capture-pane and show-options learns '-q' to silence errors.
· New command 'wait-for' which blocks a client until woken up again.
· Resizing panes will now reflow the text inside them.
· Lots and lots of bug fixes, fixing memory-leaks, etc.
· Various manpage improvements.