[jscheel]

If you like tmux, also check out teamocil (https://github.com/remiprev/teamocil) to really enhance your use. It enables you to define tmux sessions via YAML, which is great for programmatically setting up a complex dev session. Mine, for example, fires up six panes in my preferred layout, and starts up a particular part of our project in each pane.

[remi]

Teamocil author here, glad you like it! :)

[christiangenco]

Hacker News, man. Everybody's on here.

[jamesbritt]

Sometimes it feels like the Marshall McLuhan scene in Annie Hall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wWUc8BZgWE

[petepete]

Ah, that looks excellent for more complicated setups. I've been using the slightly simpler tmuxinator.

https://github.com/aziz/tmuxinator

[jscheel]

I used to use tmuxinator, but it's pretty much abandoned. There are pull requests that are over a year old. On the other hand, I submitted a pull request to teamocil and it was merged the same day.

[js-coder]

I'll actually help maintain tmuxinator now. :) The project is really awesome but the author doesn't have enough time for it, so he added me to the project a few days ago. I'll go through the pull requests soon.

[jscheel]

That's good to hear. I always hate to see good projects die because their creators are super busy. Good luck with taking things over!

[kevinastone]

Upvote for the best named project I've ever seen.

[markild]

There's no 'i' in Timocyl, at least not where you think!

[reeses]

Thanks. I really needed that in my head.

[raylu]

Sorry, I'm a bit thick and don't get it.

[sjm]

It's a reference to a TV show called Arrested Development.

[th]

If you don't like the YAML format of teamocil or tmuxinator and just want to write shell scripts to do the same thing, check out tmuxstart: https://github.com/treyhunner/tmuxstart

I made it shortly after switching to tmux last year. I hope this kind of functionality will eventually be built-in to tmux.

[kaens]

I only glanced it over, but I'm having a hard time seeing the advantage of this over shell scripts calling tmux commands.

[th]

I agree. It takes surprisingly few lines of code to make a nice wrapper with some shortcut aliases/functions to simplify the scripts. My whole tmux workflow is managed by about 30 lines of code to bootstrap by tmux session management: https://github.com/treyhunner/tmuxstart/blob/master/tmuxstar...

[remi]

You could achieve the same thing with shell scripts, but one of teamocil’s advantages is that it gives you the simplicity of YAML to build complex layouts.

[kaens]

It's definitely a well-done, and I'll be pointing new users of tmux at it. I would have been all over it if I would have seen it the first time I dove into tmux's man page way back when.

If I get a chance, I'll give a go at converting the scripts for some of the layouts I use all the time, and see if it sticks.

[eridius]

"simplicity of YAML"

Spoken like someone who's never actually looked into how complex YAML can be.

[kaens]

I don't see how someone could possibly write a tool like this without being aware of YAMLs potential complexity.

Well, I suppose it's possible, but it seems extremely unlikely.

[zurn]

These days it's very easy to use a simple api without knowing about the dragons lurking beneath the surface. Flip side of our "reusable components" holy grail.