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Very interesting. I love vim, and find the screen/vim mix a little unpleasant. A few years ago I looked at tmux and concluded I did't really need it because screen already did everything I needed.

On https://camo.githubusercontent.com/a3919061a8cf1a25c7150e3e0... I see you seem to be passing some info from vim to tmux right bottom bar, the utf8 the encoding. In vim, I usually show my offset in the file there.

Can you tell me more about that? The only thing I hate with gnu screen is the space wasted on the bottom bar, and the need to have commands in backticks otherwise

Would yo suggest some good resource to theme tmux? (I use the thinkpad dedicated previous and next button, right above the left and right arrow keys to move between tabs in all tabbed applications. A pleasure to use. With shift, then change me to the previous/next desktop. With control, they move the currently focused window to the previous or next desktop, and change focus to that desktop too)



> I see you seem to be passing some info from vim to tmux right bottom bar, the utf8 the encoding. In vim, I usually show my offset in the file there.

The bottom bar is rendered by Vim with lightline [1]. The top bar is my tmux statusline, which I created by lightly customizing the output of tmuxline.vim [2].

I made my tmux.conf by customizing what I found on github, in particular @junegunn's dotfiles [3].

[1] https://github.com/itchyny/lightline.vim

[2] https://github.com/edkolev/tmuxline.vim

[3] https://github.com/junegunn/dotfiles




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