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Introducing tmux-rs

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857 points Jtsummers | 1 comments | 03 Jul 25 15:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.262s | source
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a-dub ◴[03 Jul 25 18:12 UTC] No.44457746[source]▶
the one thing i wish tmux supported was remote connections to several backend instances.
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1. snizovtsev ◴[04 Jul 25 17:46 UTC] No.44466488[source]▶
I started working on this feature about a month ago: https://github.com/snizovtsev/tmux (it's in early experiments, not ready for a try).

Luckily tmux has a well-established "control mode" protocol designed for iTerm2 that can serialize internal state updates into a stream of text messages. So I do write client-side of this feature right inside tmux.

When it's ready, you will able to embed remote sessions inside local tmux instance by calling something like "ssh example.com tmux -CC attach". It will auto-detect "control mode" escape sequence and create special "remote session" you can switch into.

If you are interested, connect with me (snizovtsev@gmail.com) so I will notify when feature is ready and ask for early testing before making upstream proposal.