As I'm forced to work from home on my laptop with no external screens at the moment, I have taken a moment to take a look at my tmux and vim configurations. What bothered me most was switching between tmux panes and vim splits as I had to remember which key strokes I need to switch. Then I found vim-tmux-navigator, which makes this a lot easier:
Install the vim plugin using the plugin manager of your choice:
Using vundle you add the following line to your ~/.vimrc ``` Plugin 'christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator'
Then install the plugin inside vim: ```
:PluginInstall
When using pathogen you just add the repo to your plugins folder: ``` $ cd ~/.vim/bundle $ git clone https://github.com/christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator
# Configuration tmux
Add the following to your ~/.tmux.conf
is_vim="ps -o state= -o comm= -t '#{pane_tty}'
| grep -iqE '^[^TXZ ]+ +(\S+\/)?g?(view|n?vim?x?)(diff)?$'"
bind-key -n 'C-h' if-shell "$is_vim" 'send-keys C-h' 'select-pane -L'
bind-key -n 'C-j' if-shell "$is_vim" 'send-keys C-j' 'select-pane -D'
bind-key -n 'C-k' if-shell "$is_vim" 'send-keys C-k' 'select-pane -U'
bind-key -n 'C-l' if-shell "$is_vim" 'send-keys C-l' 'select-pane -R'
tmux_version='$(tmux -V | sed -En "s/^tmux ([0-9]+(.[0-9]+)?).*/\1/p")' if-shell -b '[ "$(echo "$tmux_version < 3.0" | bc)" = 1 ]'
"bind-key -n 'C-\' if-shell "$is_vim" 'send-keys C-\' 'select-pane -l'"
if-shell -b '[ "$(echo "$tmux_version >= 3.0" | bc)" = 1 ]'
"bind-key -n 'C-\' if-shell "$is_vim" 'send-keys C-\\' 'select-pane -l'"
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi 'C-h' select-pane -L
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi 'C-j' select-pane -D
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi 'C-k' select-pane -U
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi 'C-l' select-pane -R
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi 'C-' select-pane -l
Now you can easily switch beween windows using CTRL+hjkl