Jon Cairns

My UNIX terminal configuration has gradually evolved over the last couple of years, and I finally feel like I'm happy with the setup. In short, I use Tilda for my terminal, Zsh (with Oh My Zsh) as my shell and tmux as a multiplexer. This post explains why, and how, to set it all up, making you the envy of all your friends and colleagues.

One of the initially confusing things about tmux is that it has it's own set of buffers for copying and pasting data. Copying in tmux is easiest if you're using vi mode: