@Owell1984 @eshep It has 2 basic functions:
- It allows you to add (effectively) tab pages to your shell, and split each page into multiple windows. Yes your terminal can likely do this, but this is running inside your shell, so it works the same way if you’re logged in locally or running over SSH.
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@Owell1984 @eshep 2. Your tmux session runs in a server process, so if you close the enclosing terminal or disconnect from your SSH session, everything in your tmux session keeps running and you can reconnect to it later on.
You can also have a bunch of tmux sessions running in a single tmux server, and switch between them with a couple of keystrokes.
Once you start using tmux (or screen) it’s very hard to imagine going back to life without it!
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