How to save tmux session to tmuxinator project?

Question

I'm a tmux user and a fan of tmuxinator because it lets me get back to a baseline tmux session setup with ease.

However, I find that my setup changes on a regular basis, and editing my tmuxinator setup by hand can become tedious.

Is there a way to effectively tmuxinator save-session, such that my current tmux session gets saved into a tmuxinator project of choice with the panes, windows, and other details of the session automatically stored?

Unmeasured

Similar question on SU for reference: superuser.com/questions/440015/… – Unmeasured

Answer 1

Here's a tmux plugin I wrote that enables you to save and completely restore tmux sessions/environments:

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect

Cockloft

tmux-ressurect and tmux-continum are both great, but I cannot figure out how to restore the command on each window. Is this possible? – Discontent

OP here. tmux-resurrect is my current preferred solution to this problem. The other tmux-plugins are cool too! – Unmeasured

The proposed plug-in is very limited as it cannot create tmuxinator files as OP asked for plausibly. – Paige

Answer 2

I've been trying to figure out how to save sessions. One solution I am looking at can be found here:

Custom Scripts for saving Tmux sessions...

This link provides scripts that the author wrote for saving sessions at regular intervals, and saving a series of backups of those sessions.

I haven't personally tried the scripts myself, but they seem to be a potential issue for this situation.

(As for myself: I'm a little surprised that Tmux doesn't provide something like this as a built-in feature. With Screen I can understand: the code base is so messy, it's difficult to add anything new...)

Myosin

Answer 3

Steps:

1. Clone the tmux-resurrect repository: Clone the tmux-resurrect repository to your local machine using git. Run the following command to clone the repository into the ~/.tmux/plugins directory:

git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-resurrect

2. Configure Tmux to use the plugin: Add the following line to your ~/.tmux.conf file to enable the tmux-resurrect plugin:

run-shell ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-resurrect/resurrect.tmux

3. Reload the Tmux configuration: Reload the Tmux configuration file by running the following command in the terminal:

tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf

4. Prefix (ctl+b) + ctl+s to save and Prefix (ctl+b) + ctl+r to restore

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