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tmate fails with tmux 2.4 key bindings

m1foley opened this issue · 9 comments

m1foley commented

On MacOS I have installed tmux 2.4 (brew install tmux) and tmate 2.2.1 (brew install tmate).

tmate starts up with an error:

/Users/mike/.tmux.conf:2: usage: send-keys [-lRM] [-t target-pane] key ...

My .tmux.conf binds keys in tmux 2.4 format:

bind-key -T copy-mode-vi 'v' send -X begin-selection

How do you advise using tmate with tmux 2.4? Is the only solution to downgrade tmux back to 2.3 (brew switch tmux 2.3_3; brew pin tmux)?

m1foley commented

Homebrew moving to tmux 2.4 is messing up the entire tmux ecosystem. I guess it's time tmate had its own issue similar to the ones the tmux plugins are seeing.

nviennot commented

ahh!
This means that tmate must be upgraded to the 2.4 version.
Will do it soon.

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mjs2600 commented

I made a ~/.tmate.conf file, which works well for now. Is there any way to tell tmate not to source ~/.tmux.conf?

nviennot commented

sadly no, maybe that should be an option.

eschro-illumio commented

tmate -f /dev/null loads defaults for me. (any non-existent file should work though)

m1foley commented

As a workaround, I have this in ~/.tmux.conf. It works with tmux 2.6 and tmate 2.2.1.

# Enable copying to clipboard from vi mode. Remap C-j for pane switching later.
# tmate is a fork of tmux 2.4, so it needs old keybindings.
# TODO: when tmate finally upgrades its tmux, remove this and
# `brew uninstall reattach-to-user-namespace`.
if-shell "pstree -p $$ | grep [t]mate" \
  'unbind c; bind c new-window -c "#{pane_current_path}"; \
  bind-key -t vi-copy v begin-selection; \
  bind-key -t vi-copy y copy-pipe "reattach-to-user-namespace pbcopy"; \
  unbind -t vi-copy C-j; '\
  'bind -T copy-mode-vi v send -X begin-selection; \
  bind -T copy-mode-vi V send -X select-line; \
  bind -T copy-mode-vi C-v send -X rectangle-toggle \; send -X begin-selection; \
  bind -T copy-mode-vi y send -X copy-pipe-and-cancel pbcopy; \
  bind -T copy-mode-vi Escape send -X cancel; \
  unbind -T copy-mode-vi C-j;'
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nviennot commented

Because tmate didn't catch up with tmux, maybe the best thing to do for tmate is to not load the tmux configuration file by default?

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hh commented

I'm on board with that.

0xO0O0 commented

can we update now please !!