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Maybe my favorite feature of tmux, which I don't see mentioned here, is that I can configure it to start up in a certain way.

Using tmuxinator, I might set up a config for a rails project, for instance.

That way when I start tmux I get a vim editor in one window, a bash prompt in the next (for git), a rails server in the third, tests in the fourth, maybe another process in the 5th like sidekiq or something if required. Note, these (tmux-)windows all live inside of one terminal window.

So once you spend about 2 minutes writing that config, you can always start up your environment with tmuxinator start project-name and a few seconds later you're good to go.