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Events and hooks are neat, but I can’t think of a single use case, anyone have suggestions? The idea in the article semis redundant.

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I keep my build output on watch in a tab and have touched tell macOS to send me a notification when it notices a certain text pattern. It’s especially nice for things like Jekyll rebuilds.

Eh, you don't need tmux hooks for that. Just

    mkfifo notify.pipe
    grep 'error' < notify.pipe | notify-macosx-or-whatever >/dev/null &
    compile-whatever | tee notify.pipe

Edit: You can do this WAY more simply with bash >() pipes.

    compile | tee >(grep 'error' | notify >/dev/null)

Sure, you dont NEED it, but then you don't need a lot of stuff. I guess the value comes from not having to remember all those commands, just enter the hooks in the config and you have those steps happening automatically for you.

That's kinda what saving as build.sh is for.

IMO tmux is much cooler when you do stuff like running commands in or sending text to a different window. Check out entr(1) for some sweet use cases that are much more fun than the hooks. That vimdiff thing ... I used it a few months ago when trying to replicate some complicated rollup.js compiler output options. Awesome, even though I own Kaleidoscope.

http://entrproject.org/

> notification .. Jekyll rebuilds

I chuckled, I use Hugo :)

By the time I save my post and glance towards the browser in other monitor, rebuilding has already finished, and the browser live reload has already displayed the updated post.

To troll team mates if there is a shared operarios user.

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