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One nit: "considering the loss of the convenience of mouse input"

You can get full mouse support in tmux/vim.

I recently read the tmux book by the pragmatic programmers and highly recommend it: http://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux

It's short, well written and contains lots of essential configuration tips to get not only mouse support but also system copy/paste on a mac. Here's my tmux.conf if you're curious: https://github.com/briandoll/dotfiles/blob/master/tmux.conf

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I can second the recommendation for Brian Hogan's tmux book. I have a feeling it will become the tmux book to get for some time. It's short enough that you can get through it without a major investment, and long enough that covers everything (and more) to become productive with tmux.

Wow, that's really humbling. Thanks so much for the kind words.

Dude, seriously. It's one of those books that just works. It's not too long, not too short. It's like Portal. Just long enough not to screw up. And trust me when I say all the thanks should go to you. Awesome book.

The video is what sold me. I hadn't realized what I was missing until I watched that brief video you put out. It was, if anything, enlightening. I knew this stuff could be done, but it suddenly seemed so much easier, and well worth the investment.

What I'm trying to say is, if you have other ideas for writing a book about various other tools, get to work.

Please make your book available via Google Books if possible! I'd really love to purchase it, but I like to read in between devices and Google Books is the only platform that supports this well right now. Also, I like to keep it attached to a single account instead of having to spread my credit card details everywhere.

The book is available in DRM-free epub, mobi, and PDF, and PragProg.com can deliver your books to a Kindle or Dropbox automatically. That's how I read books across my devices.

I'd also recommend this book! Worth the read.

For anyone wondering what this vim/tmux thing is about, what it looks like and what it can do (and seeing the questions in the rest of the comments, there are a few), click the link to that book and check the video. I was only vaguely familiar with tmux (as in I knew it's some sort of `screen`) and this really made it clear to me.

As soon as I put Linux on this machine I'll give it a try, too :)

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