Summary

In this chapter, we got to jump right in and get a whirlwind tour of some of the coolest features in tmux.

Here is a quick summary of the features we covered in this chapter:

• Starting tmux
• Naming and renaming sessions
• The window string and what each chunk means
• Creating new windows
• The prefix key
• Multiple ways to switch back and forth between windows
• Accessing the help documents for available key bindings
• Detaching and attaching sessions
• Renaming and killing windows

In the next chapter, we will look into configuration and many of the ways tmux can be customized to fit your tastes and workflow.

For a reference of all the commands learned in this chapter and every following chapter, you can refer to the Key binding and command reference section in Appendix.