eduncan911/dotfiles

tmux-continuum

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alex-popov-tech commented

Hello! Your dotfiles looks really nice, and i see here tmux-continuum plugin https://github.com/eduncan911/dotfiles/blob/master/.tmux.conf#L50 but it is disabled right now...does it work for you?

eduncan911 commented

I originally disabled it because I do recall:

  • there were a few times it was not saved
  • a few saves was completely empty/blank, forcing me to restore a backup I had. (see below why this happened more than enough times)
  • the restore feature had many issues, and I just always resorted back to CTRL-B-R to restore
  • i lost "backups" because of the auto-save every 15 minutes quickly pushes out the oldest 10 versions
  • I don't always want to restore my sessions...
  • a few command line passwords have accidentally been recorded with the auto-saves, where I would have abandoned the session instead.
  • most annoying, my work laptops have digital guardian installed - which is a security file inspector, which greatly slows down startup and saves - like 30 seconds to a minute each! having control over when it does save, or restores, is paramount.

Why blank sessions? Because I often start tmux with an instantaneous empty session for speed - and often times I don't want to restore the entire tree. With auto-save enabled, this quickly overwrites my previous saves!

Also, sometimes I would start tmux - with the intension to restore. it didn't auto-restore, and sat blank/empty. Auto-save kicked in, and recorded a Blank restore file. All before I was able to get back to my terminal. That was painful...

So in the end, I actually like the workflow of "saving when I think of it" because my workflow is pretty much only a single session or two at a time, and then done. This affords me the flexibility of thinking, "do I really want to keep what I just did today? nah, that was junk." and just kill tmux, no save.

Saves are easy enough with ctrl-b + s.

As a final note: I've been experimenting with multiple tmux conf files - that points to different save directories. this allows me to have a couple for coding/FOSS stuff. a couple of other sessions related to microprocessor debugging (and always attach and debug with windows/panes auto-set), as well as special sessions for work -vs- home things.

it's still a bit too much to manage - have one large tmux running with 18+ sessions seems to be easiest. just, that's a lot to save and restore all the time.