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teamocil

There's no I in Teamocil. At least not where you think. Teamocil is a simple tool used to automatically create windows and panes in tmux with YAML files.

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

There's no I in Teamocil. At least not where you think. Teamocil is a simple tool used to automatically create windows and panes in tmux with YAML files.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-03-29 18:28:19 UTC to 2025-06-15 00:44:39 UTC.

01232013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025

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20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
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What Hacker News says

11 sources
mdaniel·Jun 15, 2025
I don't know how anyone could know if their tool is overlooked, but these threads are always "happy 10,000 day" fodder <https://xkcd.com/1053/> so I'll roll the dice - aws-vault https://github.com/99designs/aws-vault - often paired with the "open in container" Firefox extension (even if you use Chrome for everything else it's still great for color coding your account's "severity rating" to cut down on misclicks) https://github.com/honsiorovskyi/open-url-in-container and https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/open-url-in-contain... ; the $(aws-vault login --region $AWS_REGION --stdout "$my_profile_name") will emit the URL to login to the AWS console via their Federated Login behavior, then if one URL-encodes that and feeds it to $(firefox "ext+container:name=${con_name}&url=$url_enc") poof, it spawns the console authenticated with that a
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ws-vault profile - teamocil https://github.com/remi/teamocil#readme - gojq which has just vastly superior error messages and yaml input https://github.com/itchyny/gojq - org-mode, worth it even if you're not already in Emacs https://org-mode.org - the 1Password cli's $(op inject) option for putting creds into files or env vars without really putting them in env vars e.g. https://developer.1password.com/docs/cli/secrets-environment...
In What Are the Most Underrated Tools You Use Every Day?
mdaniel·Mar 5, 2025
I'll toss my "works on my machine" hat in the ring with two things that I have found invaluable in combination with iTerm2's tmux integration: - env KUBECONFIG=$HOME/.kube/setup-1 tmux new -s setup1 - teamocil: https://github.com/remi/teamocil#readme (MIT) The first one I use for circumstances where I want to investigate a lot of different things in a dedicated cluster, without the hassle of having $(kubectl --kubeconfig ...) or the risk of k() { kubectl --kubeconfig ... "$@"; } and losing track of what context I'm in[1]. Because, with iTerm2's integration command-n or command-t opens a new window or tab but with retaining the credential scoping. If I need to change scopes, I can just detach from the tmux session, attach to a different one, confident that I don't have any variables to unset The second I use in "standard" setups where I w
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ant to view the same configuration every day (say: web, api, database pods). Having teamocil allows me to either have those same commands laid out in the same pattern as yesterday, or I've also had pretty good luck just generating the yaml files because their syntax is simple enough 1: related to that, if you haven't seen it, iTerm2 offers the ability to set the RGB of a tab via OSC: https://iterm2.com/documentation-escape-codes.html#:~:text=t...
In Tmux – The Essentials (2019)
mdaniel·Jun 4, 2017
If you haven't already found a system you like, you may enjoy Teamocil https://github.com/remiprev/teamocil#examples I use it for tailing the logs of multiple servers in the same window, which is especially nice because ctrl-b,space will rotate the layouts if I need to see more horizontal or vertical for a second, and ctrl-b,z will full-window a pane enabling complete drill-down on one server A related project is tmuxinator https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator#tmuxinator but it didn't work exactly right for my use-case (I don't recall the specifics without being in front of my work machine)
In Differences between Tmux vs Screen (2015)
mcescalante·Nov 8, 2016
I've been using tmux heavily in my local development workflow for the last 6 months or so, and it absolutely pays off to have three window tiles in a single terminal window at a bare minimum. I am also using teamocil to manage windows and panes in tmux, although it's not needed at all: https://github.com/remiprev/teamocil When I set up initially on OSX, the conf took me a few to get right so that I have some mousing abilities and reasonable vim support. Here is a copy of my (simple) tmux.conf file: https://gist.github.com/mcescalante/004e649d8484574ce9d296ad...
In Benefits of using tmux – streamlining your development environment
git-pull·May 27, 2016
Hi, thanks for your question. I'm going to cross-post this from a reddit comment that asked the same thing. tmux[1] is oriented toward commandline users on posix-like systems. libtmux is a python library to help you script and automate tmux. it abstracts the concept of the server, its sessions, their windows and panes [2] into a herarchy you can easily navigate, even with a live tmux session. I don't know if you use cli, tmux, or a tmux session manager (tmuxinator, teamocil, tmuxp) already, so its hard to tailor this answer specifically. command line a good deal of programmers, sysadmins, etc. use the terminal routinely throughout their day. some even go so far as to swear off a graphical IDE all together, and use screen or tmux with a combination of an editor like vim, emacs and others. if you primarily use windows and don't use linux/b
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sd/os x terminal often, if you ever do, i highly recommend giving screen[3] or tmux a shot. tmux the benefit to using the terminal means tmux lets you do a couple things: - split your terminal into multiple PTY's (panes) and windows, copy and paste between them. No GUI required - "detach" the tmux sesssion, sending it (and any shells/applications running in the panes) to the background, and come back later to reattach - it is also seamless to SSH into a server and work from there, since there's no GUI involved, you can use the same workflow on OS X, Linux or BSD machines. I write in detail about tmux here: http://tmuxp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about_tmux.html tmux configuration a good amount of developers use screen or tmux on a regular basis. over time, a variety of plugins have popped up. tmuxinator[4], teamocil[5] and tmuxp[6] (my own, written in python) being ways to load pre-configured sessions from a YAML file. scripting / automating tmux with libtmux so here is where libtmux comes in, it can be used to control tmux via python objects, which can be very handy in situations where you want to interface with tmux at a low level expressively. it is possible to script things via shell, but there's no way to know the state or easily traverse through the tree of Server -> Sessions -> Windows -> Panes. tmuxp uses libtmux under the hood a way to build sessions[7]. other developers have used tmuxp[8]* for scripting tmux to the workflow of their projects. * note: I link to `import tmuxp` because the API would formerly be in that project for the past few years. libtmux decouples the core into its own library. [1] https://tmux.github.io/ [2] http://libtmux.readthedocs.io/api.html [3] https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ [4] https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator [5] https://github.com/remiprev/teamocil [6] https://github.com/tony/tmuxp [7] https://github.com/tony/tmuxp/blob/master/tmuxp/workspacebui... [8] https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22import+tmuxp%2...
In Libtmux – pilot your tmux session via python
jscheel·Mar 29, 2013
If you like tmux, also check out teamocil (https://github.com/remiprev/teamocil) to really enhance your use. It enables you to define tmux sessions via YAML, which is great for programmatically setting up a complex dev session. Mine, for example, fires up six panes in my preferred layout, and starts up a particular part of our project in each pane.
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