tmux-plugins / Tmux Pain Control
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Tmux Pain Control
Tmux plugin for controlling panes. Adds standard pane navigation bindings.
So far, you had to google around and comb other people's dotfiles to find these. This plugin hopefully makes them more available and "more standard".
Thanks to the Tmux community for "inventing" these bindings. I've merely just copied them here.
Tested and working on Linux, OSX and Cygwin.
Bindings
Notice most of the bindings emulate vim cursor movements.
Navigation
-
prefix + h
andprefix + C-h
select pane on the left -
prefix + j
andprefix + C-j
select pane below the current one -
prefix + k
andprefix + C-k
select pane above -
prefix + l
andprefix + C-l
select pane on the right
Note: This overrides tmux's default binding for toggling between last
active windows, prefix + l
.
tmux-sensible gives you
a better binding for that, prefix + a
(if your prefix is C-a
).
Resizing panes
-
prefix + shift + h
resize current pane 5 cells to the left -
prefix + shift + j
resize 5 cells in the down direction -
prefix + shift + k
resize 5 cells in the up direction -
prefix + shift + l
resize 5 cells to the right
These mappings are repeatable
.
The amount of cells to resize can be configured with @pane_resize
option. See
configuration section for the details.
Splitting panes
-
prefix + |
split current pane horizontally -
prefix + -
split current pane vertically -
prefix + \
split current pane full width horizontally -
prefix + _
split current pane full width vertically
Newly created pane always has the same path as the original pane.
Swapping windows
-
prefix + <
- moves current window one position to the left -
prefix + >
- moves current window one position to the right
Tmux Plugin Manager (recommended)
Installation withAdd plugin to the list of TPM plugins in .tmux.conf
:
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-pain-control'
Hit prefix + I
to fetch the plugin and source it.
You should now have all pain-control
bindings defined.
Manual Installation
Clone the repo:
$ git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-pain-control ~/clone/path
Add this line to the bottom of .tmux.conf
:
run-shell ~/clone/path/pain_control.tmux
Reload TMUX environment:
# type this in terminal
$ tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf
You should now have all pain-control
bindings defined.
Configuration
You can set @pane_resize
Tmux option to choose number of resize cells for the
resize bindings. "5" is the default.
Example:
set-option -g @pane_resize "10"
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