ReMux: a friendlier tmux wrapper

Pronounced [ ɹ̠i məks ], like "remix."

A tmux wrapper and command shortener written in Rust. ReMux's goal is to wrap tmux commands to be both shorter, and oriented around session names instead of session IDs.

To further simplify developer usage, the attach, detach, has, and new commands can be used without a target field, and will default to the name of the Git repository root directory, if one is found.

In their shortest forms, every ReMux command is as short or shorter than its equivalent tmux command:

#	new session
tmux new-s -t foo
remux n foo

#	list sessions
tmux ls
remux l
remux

#	attach
tmux a -t foo
remux a foo

#	has
tmux h -t foo
remux h foo

#	detach
tmux det -t foo
remux d foo

#	nesting sessions with '-n' flag
TMUX='' tmux a -t foo
remux a -n foo
TMUX='' tmux new-session -t foo
remux n -n foo

#	switch to another session
tmux swi -t foo
rmux s foo

#	cd to session path
tmux run 'printf "#{session_path}" > /tmp/tmux_root'
cd `cat /tmp/tmux_root`
cd `rmux root`

Dependencies

ReMux depends on tmux.

Installation

Manual Install

Release Binary

Copy the compiled binary from the releases page to a directory in $PATH, such as /usr/bin/.

Compile from Source

Compile using cargo with the command cargo build --release and copy the file from target/release/ to a directory in $PATH, such as /usr/bin/.

makepkg (AUR)

Clone the AUR Repository and run the command makepkg --install.

Package Managers

Arch Linux (AUR): remux

Install the package from the remux AUR Package using an AUR package manager such as paru.

Cargo: tmux-remux

Install the package using Cargo with the command cargo install tmux-remux.

Configuration

The pretty-print attached symbol (default: *) can be set manually by setting REMUX_ATTACH_SYMBOL.

Libraries

• pico-args — argument parsing
• termion — ANSI formatting
• tmux_interface — tmux communication