Tile Split Tile Split Tile (rants)
I love tilling window managers,it split my display in halves.
I love tmux, it splits my terminal in halves
and I love vim, it splits my workspace in halves
The cursed
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| | vim split: main | |
| | | |
| split | | |
| | | |
| files | > My lovely code | |
| tags | | |
| lists | int super_safe(char* str) | |
| | { | |
| | gets(str); | |
| | } | Browser |
| | | |
| |2 | 5 |
| +---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
| | | |
| | | |
| | vim split: quick fix list | Anime girls |
| | | |
|1 |3 | |
+-------+---------------------------------+ |
| Terminal Split : shell prompt | |
| | |
|4 | 6 |
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Now my biggest headache is how to navigate through the panes!
The problem is that each level (wm/tmux/editor) has its own modifier key (and
keybindings). Currently I use Mod (win) key for window manager, Alt (or
prefix Alt-W) for tmux and Ctrl (or prefix Ctrl-W) for vim. That is, to
switch from 5 to 2 I need:
(PRESS Mod-H)
(IF in 4) (PRESS Alt-K) (ENDIF)
(IF in 1) (PRESS Ctr-L) (ENDIF)
(IF in 3) (PRESS Ctr-W) (ENDIF)
You constantly need to eyeball the cursor and DO A MAPPING IN YOUR HEAD: which fucking container am I in?
To make things even worse, each container has its own “workspaces”:
- WM has workspaces
- Tmux has sessions and windows
- Vim has tabs and buffers
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A real-world example of the …
Hey, why do you use tmux when you have WM?
Well, when I work locally I avoid using tmux. But when I’m working on a server (I often do!), I have to use tmux because I don’t want to start multiple ssh sessions, and most importantly the workspaces SHOULD NOT be attached to a ssh session because if the network break or I accidentally kill the terminal the remote programs will be killed and the works will be lost.
Remedy…? just a wild idea.
Maybe we can have a plugin for.. say wlroots, to also identify tmux panes and vim splits and put them in WM’s window tree, so that we can navigate with only one set of keybindings..
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