How I use tmux

The primary reason I use tmux (and originally screen) was so I don't lose my current working directories when I accidentally close my terminal window(s). tmux attach and you are back where you fat fingered a cmd+w or cmd+q. The second reason is because I have a number of projects (and their directories) I work on, so I have a little tmux configuration file called .tmuxdev that I run every time I reboot and start tmux by doing this: tmux #start tmux ctrl-w-: source ~/.tmuxdev #source the script .tmuxdev looks like this: neww send-keys 'cd ~/path-to-project1' Enter renamew 'project1' killw -t 0 neww send-keys 'cd ~/path-to-project2' Enter renamew 'project2' neww send-keys 'cd ~/path-to-project3' Enter renamew 'project3' #2 panes neww send-keys 'cd ~/path-to-project4/frontend' Enter renamew 'project4' spl send-keys 'cd ~/path-to-project4/backend' Enter #And so on Then in tmux, I can do ctrl-w and f to find a window by their names like project1. I also have a few more personalized keybindings that is more consistent with my workflow with vi: set -g prefix C-w #consistent with my vi bindings bind j select-pane -D bind k select-pane -U bind h select-pane -L bind l select-pane -R bind 9 select-pane -l bind 9 run-shell "tmux select-window -t $(tmux list-windows | awk 'END{print NR-1}')" #last window #Overrides default binding which does find-window too, but now case insensitive bind f command-prompt "find-window -i '%%'" bind -n C-h previous-window bind -n C-l next-window bind -n C-o last-window