40 engineers on Hacker News describe using tmux first-hand: 15 endorse it, 2 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“If I wasn't able to multiplex with tmux I would have switched to emacs a long time ago.”
endorse · personal · lopotubez · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“for an agent in production it was so helpful for me to use Pi in interactive mode via tmux to get a feel of the agentic flow”
endorse · production · ttmacer · 2026-10-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've tried tmux like a hundred times and could never learn to like it, falling back to screen”
regret · personal · suslik · 2025-08-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The only real annoyance I have is if macOS brew installed tmux v9001, but my OpenBSD system has only tmux v1.2”
mixed · personal · jitl · 2024-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“with tmux set to create a new session when the terminal is launched ... never again have to recreate 10 different panes in different working directories”
endorse · personal · arlort · 2024-06-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use a tmux+neovim setup that mostly works without any problems”
endorse · personal · tantony · 2023-11-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it has the added benefit of being able to connect to my active sessions on another machine and pick up where I left off.”
endorse · personal · robotmay · 2021-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“had a fairly productive tmux + fish + vim configuration”
endorse · personal · josephferano · 2021-09-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When my company started, we used tmux in PROD as a process supervisor.”
endorse · production · aftbit · 2021-01-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using tmux + vim + shell for 10-15 years and still going strong.”
endorse · personal · 10 yr · chubot · 2019-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“These days I use C-z for tmux. It works, and C-z z is easy enough to type when I want to put something in the background.”
endorse · personal · wtbob · 2017-02-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“everything through command line, since it fits better with tmux”
endorse · personal · forbidden404 · 2016-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use a combination of tmux and mumble to get multiple remote-working coders all looking at one screen. It's very useful”
endorse · production · jff · 2013-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Gvim + grep/ag/sed/tmux is all I need for full-stack development.”
endorse · personal · BadassFractal · 2013-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using screen for years, and just switched to tmux since so many people have been raving about it.”
endorse · personal · froseph · 2011-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use tmux to pair program with remote employees, and this allows us to stay in sync automatically.”
endorse · production · benburkert · 2010-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using tmux lately and my primary complaint is that you can't attach to the same session without syncing them.”
regret · personal · jedbrown · 2010-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it is rock solid, its region-splitting capabilities is hugely better than screen's... I think I'm going to make the change permanent.”
endorse · personal · Nick_C · 2010-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“for me it is a step up from years using tmux”
neutral · personal · mark_l_watson · 2026-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I created my own harness tcode to leverage tmux and neovim. Have been using it all the time since the beginning of this year.”
neutral · personal · wb14123 · 2026-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using tmux session to hand over to claude for a while.”
neutral · personal · littlecranky67 · 2026-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using ghosty + ssh + mosh + tmux + claude code (sometimes codex) for a while now.”
neutral · personal · mkw5053 · 2026-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it's been working about as reliably as tmux did.”
neutral · personal · klodolph · 2026-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we initially had it spinning up a tmux session to analyze the snapshot instead of using the API.”
neutral · production · muchael · 2026-04-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I often SSH in, start tmux, disconnect, then reconnect later. Would the dotfiles still be there?”
neutral · personal · yoan9224 · 2025-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Tmux to keep my terminals organized and openbox to make it stylish”
neutral · personal · jgb1984 · 2024-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“one can lay in bed and do the stuff in vim, tmux, &c. as one usually does”
neutral · personal · cess11 · 2024-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“`:set -g mode-keys vi` in tmux, and use one of the vimperator clones in my browser”
neutral · personal · ormaaj · 2022-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using alacritty with tmux because I don't need all the bells and whistles in iterm2.”
neutral · personal · jacobsenscott · 2021-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I typically have something like 30-40 terminals open at a time, grouped into windows in tmux”
neutral · personal · necrotic_comp · 2020-07-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“If you have tmux setup correctly, you can use emacs/vim to eval against your ssh'd python... I've done this for over a decade.”
neutral · personal · 10 yr · emidln · 2020-03-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“wsltty also has no issues with tmux where as the MS terminal (both old and new) have severe issues with tmux”
neutral · personal · nickjj · 2019-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“editing PHP with Vim in production via a tmux session”
neutral · production · tambourine_man · 2018-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I also make heavy use of emacsclient and tmux sessions and windows in conjunction with iTerm2”
neutral · personal · michaelsbradley · 2014-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“after 15 years in ircii, irssi and weechat inside screen and tmux.”
neutral · personal · fps · 2013-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“run a terminal irc client like irssi or weechat in screen/tmux. That's what I've been using for the last 15 years or so.”
neutral · personal · 15 yr · vinkelhake · 2013-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Ctrl-\ as my Ctrl-a in screen (and occasionally tmux).”
neutral · personal · jzawodn · 2013-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using tmux in iTerm.”
neutral · personal · crazydiamond · 2012-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?