I love working on Linux terminals Rewind a decade or so, and you'd find me ensconced within the embrace of a Linux terminal for the duration of my day. Here, amidst the digital ebb and flow, I thrived—maneuvering files and folders with finesse, weaving code in Vim, orchestrating services maintenance, decoding kernel dumps, and seamlessly transitioning across a mosaic of tmux sessions. The graphical user interface? A distant thought, unnecessary for the tapestry of tasks at hand. Like all geeks, every tech enthusiast harbors a unique sanctuary of productivity—a bespoke digital workshop where code flows like poetry, and ideas ignite with the spark of creativity. It’s a realm where custom tools and secret utilities interlace, forming the backbone of unparalleled efficiency and innovation. Today, I'm pulling back the curtain to reveal the intricacies of my personal setup on Mac. I invite you on this meticulous journey through the configuration of my Mac-based development sanctuary. Together, let's traverse this path, transforming the mundane into the magnificent, one command, one tool, one revelation at a time. iTerm2 After account setup on Mac, the initial terminal looks like this when I logged in: Let's equip it with iTerm2! What is iTerm2? iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.14 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted. Why Do I Want It? Check out the impressive features and screenshots. If you spend a lot of time in a terminal, then you'll appreciate all the…

The Background... I have Django/Vue development environment running locally. To streamline my Django development, I typically open six tmux windows 😎 : I used one Tmux session to hold all above. However, my laptop sometimes needs to reboot, after reboot, all of my windows are gone 😓 I have configured tmux-resurrect and tmux-continuum to try to handle this scenario, but they couldn't re-run those commands even they could restore the windows correctly. Let me show you the screenshots. The problem... Typically, my development windows look like this: As you see, the services are running within the respective windows. If I save them with tmux-resurrect, after reboot, of course tmux-resurrect and tmux-continuum could restore them, but services and all environment variables are gone. To simulate, let me kill all sessions in tmux, check the output: Now start tmux again, here are the status I can see, tmux restored the previous saved windows: Let's check the window now: None of the services is running 🙉 The Complain... As the supreme overlord of geekcoding101.com, I simply cannot let such imperfection slide. Not on my watch. Nope, not happening. This ain't it, chief. Okay, let's fix it! The Fix... .... Okay! I wrote a script.. oh no! Two scripts! One is called start_tmux_dev_env.sh to create all windows, it will invoke prepare_dev_env.sh which export functions to initialize environment variables in specific windows. A snippet of start_tmux_dev_env.sh: The prepare_dev_env.sh looks like: The End... Now, after reboot, I can just invoke script start_tmux_dev_env.sh and it will spin up all windows for me in seconds! I'M Really Pround…

Hi there! Today I'd like to share you my notes about tmux! Tmux is my favorite terminal multiplexer! Several years ago I didn't give a **it for people using it! Because I thought that might consume too much of my time to customize. However, one day I was free, then tested the water! I feel like I couldn't live without it in my coding environment! It likes Vim, the learning curve is steep, but once you're comfortable with it, you will addict to it! No more talking, let's dive into it! Introduction It’s tmux, a so-called terminal multiplexer. Simply speaking, tmux acts as a window manager within your terminal 1 and allows you to create multiple windows and panes within a single terminal window. Pane Shortcut Comment Pre % Splitting panes in left and right Pre " Splitting panes in top and bottom Pre <arrow key> Navigating in panes C-d Close panes Pre: swap-pane -s <sid> -t <tid> Swap sid pane to tid pane Pre z Make a pane go full screen, vice versa Pre C-<arrow key>Pre ⌥-<arrow key> Resize pane in direction of Windows Shortcut Comment Pre c Create a new window Pre , Rename current window Pre x Close current window with prompt and deattach Sessions Shortcut Comment Pre :new -s <name> Create a new session Pre C-c Create a new session Pre $ Rename current session Pre s, then x on the session Delete the selected session Configuration This is the folder of configuration: ~/.tmux. This is the configuratino file: ~/.tmux.conf Session Handling Search Pluggins I haven't explored much…