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author | Nicholas Marriott <nicholas.marriott@gmail.com> | 2008-06-02 21:08:36 +0000 |
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committer | Nicholas Marriott <nicholas.marriott@gmail.com> | 2008-06-02 21:08:36 +0000 |
commit | a26f58c7c394f81c523da597f85f69d3fc8bc8ad (patch) | |
tree | 869e58ba4df84531d550002ccb2a856ed5db2577 /CHANGES | |
parent | f6b86402c7fd1f4af0e4d163f22e4b9f71b2e538 (diff) |
Last bits of basic configuration file. By default in ~/.tmux.conf or specified with -f. Just a list of tmux commands executed when the server is started and before and any session/window is created.
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@@ -1,5 +1,43 @@ 02 June 2008 +* New command, start-server (alias "start"), to start the tmux server and do + nothing else. This is good if you have a configuration file which creates + windows or sessions (like me): in that case, starting the server the first + time tmux new is run is bad since it creates a new session and window (as + it is supposed to - starting the server is a side-effect). + + Instead, I have a little script which does the equivalent of: + + tmux has -s0 2>/dev/null || tmux start + tmux attach -d -s0 + + And I use it to start the server if necessary and attach to my primary + session. +* Basic configuration file in ~/.tmux.conf or specified with -f. This is file + contains a set of tmux commands that are run the first time the server is + started. The configuration commands are executed before any others, so + if you have a configuration file that contains: + + new -d + neww -s0 + + And you do the following without an existing server running: + + tmux new + + You will end up with two sessions, session 0 with two windows (created by + the configuration file) and your client attached to session 1 with one + window (created by the command-line command). I'm not completely happy with + this, it seems a little non-obvious, but I haven't yet decided what to do + about it. + + There is no environment variable handling or other special stuff yet. + + In the future, it might be nice to be able to have per-session configuration + settings, probably by having conditionals in the file (so you could, for + example, have commands to define a particular window layout that would only + be invoked if you called tmux new -smysession and mysession did not already + exist). * BIG CHANGE: -s and -c to specify session name and client name are now passed after the command rather than before it. So, for example: @@ -330,4 +368,4 @@ (including mutt, emacs). No status bar yet and no key remapping or other customisation. -$Id: CHANGES,v 1.97 2008-06-02 18:08:16 nicm Exp $ +$Id: CHANGES,v 1.98 2008-06-02 21:08:36 nicm Exp $ |