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Here's a personal setup for my coding workflow using vim+tmux. Most of these configurations were inspired by a few other tmux/vim pros. I'd like to acknowledge a few online guides particularly, Vim and Python - A Match Made in Heaven for vim setup, Making tmux Pretty and Usable for basic tmux configurations, and Nick Nisi' Vim + Tmux Talk for general layout designs. I'm mostly working with python and js. My main 'dev' layout consists of three panes where I would edit my codes on the top pane, run them on the second window, and navigate through the results with the last windows

Installation

Run install.sh

cd ~/.dotfiles
source install.sh

Or go through the following steps.

First of all, let's make sure we have the most crucial requirements for these configurations to work: vim, tmux, which can be installed via Homebrew if you are on macOS (or any package manager in most os'es)

brew install macvim
brew install tmux

Vundle and TPM

I use Vundle for Vim plugin manager and Tmux Plugin Manager for plugin managers. Both can be easily installed by cloning their repository to home directory (if cloned to other location, change the rtp for Vundle in .dotfile/vim/.vimrc and run path in .dotfiles/tmux/.tmux.conf)

git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm

Configuration files

Instead of running tmux and vim with the path to a specific configuration (i.e. tmux -f ~/.dotfiles/tmux/.tmux.conf), we will create defaults configuration files in home directory that source our custom dotfiles. We will also include the alias tmux-load for loading tmux script that automatically populates a new window with custom layout.

echo "so ~/.dotfiles/vim/.vimrc" >> ~/.vimrc
echo "source-file ~/.dotfiles/tmux/.tmux.conf" >> ~/.tmux.conf
echo "source ~/.dotfiles/shell/.dotfiles_alias" >> ~/.bash_profile

Then, install the plugins in vim with

vim +PluginInstall

and in tmux with

tmux
[prefix] + I

Now you're ready to go!

Usage

Here'a the summary of changes, mainly with keys map

• the typical tmux prefix Ctrl-b has been mapped to Ctrl-a
• for navigating through panes (universal across vim and tmux), use Ctrl-h,Ctrl-j,Ctrl-k, and Ctrl-l (similar direclty as in vim)
• for navigation through different windows, use Ctrl-a-h and Ctrl-a-l
• the leader key has been mapped to ,

Custom layout

Within tmux, you can create a new window with customs layout defined in .dotfiles/tmux/. These are the files with extension .tmux.sh

tmux-load [layout]

For example,

tmux-load dev

Currently, the following layouts are available

dev.tmux.sh

sys.tmux.sh

macOS

As this configurations were written mostly for my Macbook Pro, in .tmux.conf, the right status bar would also include

• the current song and artist being played on spotify

if you want to use this for other system, consider commenting these parts out. Otherwise, there would be small ♫ and ♥ symbol as part of the status bar (though, it would not affect the functionality)

• the battery percentage of the laptop