Creating a tmux configuration file
In order to keep the settings around after restarting tmux, we will create a configuration file that will include all the information about what options we want to set and to what values.
Like many other Unix-based utilities, configuring tmux is as simple as creating a file with the name .tmux.conf in your home directory.
However, unlike many other configuration files, a tmux configuration file does not contain some kind of specific configuration language for the program, rather it consists of a series of tmux commands that are run, in order, when tmux starts up. Most of the commands we'll see are simple set-option commands similar to the commands we played with in the previous examples. Let's create and start building our configuration file:
$ cd ~ $ touch .tmux.conf
Open this newly created file in your favorite text editor and we're ready to rock!
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Like with most Unix-based utilities, this file in your personal directory contains the configuration for...
