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tmux-python
libtmux
Python2016–2026
tmux-python / libtmux

libtmux

⚙️ Python API / wrapper for tmux

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⚙️ Python API / wrapper for tmux

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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, 11:56:56 AM UTC.

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HN mentions by year8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-05-24 15:52:06 UTC to 2026-04-08 18:20:34 UTC.

01232016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 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 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 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): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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tony·Aug 23, 2022
I am moving all my open source projects to `mypy --strict`. Here's the diff of adding basic / --strict mypy types: libvcs: https://github.com/vcs-python/libvcs/pull/362/files, https://github.com/vcs-python/libvcs/pull/390/files libtmux: https://github.com/tmux-python/libtmux/pull/382/files, https://github.com/tmux-python/libtmux/pull/383/files unihan-etl: https://github.com/cihai/unihan-etl/pull/255/files, https://github.com/cihai/unihan-etl/pull/257/files Perks: - code completions (through annotating) - typings can be used downstream (since the above are all now typed python libraries) - maintainability, bug finding + Easy to wire into CI and run locally Longterm, unsure of the return on investment. I do promise to report back if I find it's not worth the effort.
In Using Mypy in Production
jeroenjanssens·Apr 28, 2020
A great feature of tmux is that every action can be automated from the command line using commands such as split-window, resize-pane, and select-layout. With the send-keys and capture-pane commands you can even automate interacting with any process running inside tmux. The man page provides a good overview of these commands. There also exists a wrapper for Python [0] and I'm currently working on one for R [1]. [0] https://github.com/tmux-python/libtmux/ [1] https://github.com/datascienceworkshops/tmuxr
In Tmux for Mere Mortals
git-pull·May 29, 2016
I haven't used teamocil or tmuxinator in a few years. At the time, both had a few itches to scratch. i was surprised to see how well thought-out and scriptable tmux was. the often overlooked formats [1] and targets [2] options in the tmux manual had a lot of possibilities to do precise tweaks across sessions, windows and panes, but they were cumbersome to articulate. it seemed like a superb candidate to create an object mapper for in python. In recent months, I spun off the low-level python library for mapping sessions, windows and panes to objects to libtmux [3] I will give a try at advantages, but take note its been a while and tmuxinator may have improved on these: 1. focusing a pane in each window, as well as window in the session. So after the session is loaded, the cursor will be focused wherever you entered "focus: true". http://tm
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uxp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html#focusing. tmuxinator's startup_window seems to only do window focusing, not pane focusing. 2. freezing tmux layouts http://tmuxp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cli.html#freeze-sessio... 3. JSON support 4. More ability to resolve paths relative to configuration file and relative to start_directory. http://tmuxp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html#start-di... 5. before_script for bootstrapping project dependencies before launch http://tmuxp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html#bootstra.... Can target bootstrap script via absolute path, relation to start_directory and relation to config directory. 6. Set custom indexes (window numbers) via config These are little conveniences I don't recall seeing in tmuxinator/teamocil in 2013 (I originally used both): - If your tmux session is already loaded, it will offer to attach it for you instead of re-running. (I don't recall if this was tmuxinator or teamocil) - If you're already inside a tmux session and load a session via tmuxp, it will offer to switch-client for you. - There is also an ability to import teamocil and tmuxinator configs, http://tmuxp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cli.html#import, though it may be out of date with the latest config for them. I'm considering whether I want to remove the feature, or just try to load them natively. It wouldn't be hard. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tmux&apropos=0&sekt... [2] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tmux&apropos=0&sekt... [3] https://github.com/tony/libtmux
In Show HN: Tmuxp – Tmux session manager written in Python

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