Review: Complete tmux Tutorial Video (12min)

This is a good, relatively quick coverage of how to start using tmux for sessions, windows, and panes.

Commands

These are the commands reference in the video

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Create a new session    |  ``tmux``
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Detach                  |  ``LEADER-d``
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Get available sessions  |  ``tmux ls``
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Reattatch               |  ``tmux attach -t NAME``
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Give/Rename a session   |  ``tmux rename-session -t OLDNAME NEWNAME``
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Kill a session          |  ``tmux kill-session -t NAME``
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Create a new window     |  ``LEADER-c``
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Switch windows          |  ``LEADER-number``
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Split vertically        |  ``LEADER-%``
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Split horizontally      |  ``LEADER-|``
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Switch panes            |  ``LEADER-arrowkey``
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Rename a window         |  `LEADER-,`
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Notes

Tmux lets you make a virtual session where you can start a command line app. You can detach from the session and the command will keep running. When you reattach to the session it shows up again
LEADER defaults to CTRL-b but can be changed in ~/.tmux.conf
The -t stands for "target" which makes it easier for me to remember
The NAME is the first thing on tmux ls line before the colon. For example, "website" in "website: 1 windows (created...)"
Session NAMEs start life as an index number (starting at zero) until assigned a name. (e.g. this session "NAME" is "0": "0: 1 windows (created...)"
The status bar is at the bottom of the terminal
The status bar show the lists of windows
An * identifies the active window in the status bar
A tmux session can have multiple windows which take up the full size of the terminal
Panes divide a single window into multiple smaller sections
One window is created by default when you start a session
Creating a session with a name (instead of just an index reference) is done with tmux new -s NAME. I've been doing that but it's hard to remember. I'm liking the patter of starting an unamed session with bare tmux and then renaming

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