tmux VS toggleterm.nvim

Compare tmux vs toggleterm.nvim and see what are their differences.

tmux

tmux source code (by tmux)

toggleterm.nvim

A neovim lua plugin to help easily manage multiple terminal windows (by akinsho)
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tmux toggleterm.nvim
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32,600 3,583
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8.3 8.0
3 days ago 7 days ago
C Lua
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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tmux

Posts with mentions or reviews of tmux. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-18.
  • Easy Access to Terminal Commands in Neovim using FTerm
    6 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2024
    Having a common set of tools already set up in different windows or sessions in Tmux or Zellij is obviously an option, but there is a subset of us ( 👋 ) that would rather just have fingertip access to our common tools inside of our editor.
  • Zellij – A terminal workspace with batteries included (tmux alternative)
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Feb 2024
    After having spent too much time trying to get the simple https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/ features into mainline tmux (last November https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/3753), maybe it'd be easier to jump ship as use zellij?

    Could anyone offer recommendations on "riced" zellij configuations, or just a demo where it shows doing with (say charts of disk usage per folder), watching a movie with mpv + keeping a vim to type on?

  • Automating the startup of a dev workflow
    2 projects | dev.to | 2 Jan 2024
    Well, I now use tmux and tmuxinator. I have had many failed tmux attempts over the years, but I'm firmly bedded in now.
  • Clipboards, Terminals, and Linux
    4 projects | dev.to | 28 Dec 2023
    Which leads me to clipboards. Linux has two of them! Adding to the interest, I typically use Neovim remotely, via an SSH connection to a Tmux session. And on my Linux system, I use urxvt as my terminal program. All of these are very UNIX-y tools, and somehow they all need to play nicely together.
  • Connecting Debugger to Rails Applications
    4 projects | dev.to | 19 Dec 2023
    The downside of overmind is that it requires tmux, which is a terminal multiplexer tool. If you don't already use tmux, I'd say it's probably not worth learning it just for the purposes of using overmind. But if you're like me and already know/use tmux, this can be a great solution to pursue.
  • Enchula Mi Consola
    11 projects | dev.to | 19 Dec 2023
  • Pimp your CLI
    13 projects | dev.to | 19 Dec 2023
    As a developer, the command line is one of the tools you will be using most frequently. It can be intimidating to venture into the world of CLI tooling but I can assure you it is one of the most rewarding experiences too. In this post I want to walk ya'll through my personal CLI setup. It is based on 3 technologies which I'll coin as the "Holy Trinity" of the command line: TMUX, ZSH, & Neovim.
  • Day 5 - More or less...
    3 projects | /r/linuxupskillchallenge | 7 Dec 2023
    After that, you can go up a notch and try to have several shell sessions open at the same time in the same terminal window with a terminal multiplexer. Try screen - that's a little simpler and maybe too terse in the beginning - or tmux, that have many features and colors. There are so much material out there on "how to customize your tmux", have fun.
  • How would you work effectively with an extremely slow 56Kbps connection?
    12 projects | /r/linux | 5 Dec 2023
    A few days ago I made a suggestion to work around any possible issues but it's up to the main tmux maintainer to decide what to do.
  • NeoVim Capability Functions
    4 projects | /r/neovim | 3 Nov 2023
    For splitting the terminal you could try either toggleterm or tmux. If you want to send things from one tmux pane to another, then you can use slime. For a toggle-able filetree, you can use nvim tree.

toggleterm.nvim

Posts with mentions or reviews of toggleterm.nvim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-31.
  • Neovide – a simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform GUI for Neovim
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jan 2024
    As a data point, I'd like to chime in here. I have been a 15 year user of tmux (and screen before that) and never thought I'd change my development habits. Over the holidays I decided I would do one of those once-every-five-years upgrades to my vim setup as I had accrued dozens of vendored plugins in normal vim and wanted to see what the big deal with neovim was.

    I bit the bullet and evaluated some of the "distributions" (AstroNvim and kickstarter) and played around with all the new lua plugins that I had never thought I needed (why use telescope when FZF-vim worked so well?).

    Anyways, after a month of tweaking and absorbing, I found myself running Neovide only, and doing something I never thought I'd see, running tmux from within neovim/neovide. I think this only works (for me) because of session management (there are half a dozen plugins for handling quickly changing 'workspaces') and because the built-in terminal (with a very useful plugin called toggleterm: https://github.com/akinsho/toggleterm.nvim) works so well.

    I have not stopped using tmux and layouts, and it sits in another fullscreen iterm2 workspace, but I find that I now spend 90% of my time using a fullscreen neovide and summoning/toggling tmux momentarily for running commands.

    Of course, the caveat here is that my preferred mode of operation is being fullscreen as often as possible. I think if your preferred mode of operation is to always see splits then running neovim from the terminal within tmux is still the way to go.

    As for why I like neovide? I find the animations, when tweaked to be less 'cool' are extremely useful to see where the cursor jumps to. I am also a huge fan of the fact that I can finally use 'linespace' to put some space between my lines of code -- it is an aesthetic I didn't realize I wanted.

  • NeoVim Capability Functions
    4 projects | /r/neovim | 3 Nov 2023
    For splitting the terminal you could try either toggleterm or tmux. If you want to send things from one tmux pane to another, then you can use slime. For a toggle-able filetree, you can use nvim tree.
  • Noobie Needs a Nudge
    7 projects | /r/neovim | 30 Jun 2023
    And I never really got into Gitsigns or vim-fugitive. Lots of people love them, so I'm sure they're great, but I'm happy opening a floating terminal with Toggleterm and using Lazygit.
  • Using Floaterm, what's the best way to toggle between the editor and opened window and maintain the shell session?
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 6 Jun 2023
    I agree with u/Bamseg, but you can get what you want using toggleterm.nvim BUT NOT IN FLOAT.
  • What do you use for git integration in neovim?
    8 projects | /r/neovim | 6 Jun 2023
    I use gitsigns for linewise operations (blame, reset, etc), and a floating terminal (toggleterm) for everything else. flatten.nvim also helps with nested nvim instances.
  • Switching from Emacs. My experience
    20 projects | /r/neovim | 24 May 2023
    but I ended up finding a good enough workaround by using Lazygit through Toggleterm.
    20 projects | /r/neovim | 24 May 2023
    The only thing I truly miss from Emacs is [Magit](https://magit.vc/) since I still consider it the best git wrapper available. It is just too good. Unfortunately [Neogit](https://github.com/TimUntersberger/neogit) is not quite there yet although I hope it makes it at some point. I didn't like [Fugitive]https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive), but I ended up finding a good enough workaround by using [Lazygit](https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit) through [Toggleterm](https://github.com/akinsho/toggleterm.nvim).
  • Just got neovim up and working
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 21 May 2023
    Perhaps you want something like https://github.com/akinsho/toggleterm.nvim and make a custom profile? Remapping a key for each extension seems fine as well, just remap it per-buffer inside of on_attach
  • Thinking about migrating from vim, why should I?
    4 projects | /r/neovim | 14 May 2023
    better terminal support, and especially toggleterm, which allowed me to drop tmux from my workflow.
  • My project manager plugin
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 13 Apr 2023
    The commands can be either raw vim commands, lua functions, sequential commands (multiple commands executed in order), or commands executed in a ToggleTerm window

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tmux and toggleterm.nvim you can also consider the following projects:

vim-floaterm - :computer: Terminal manager for (neo)vim

zellij - A terminal workspace with batteries included

neoterm - Wrapper of some vim/neovim's :terminal functions.

kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

multiterm.vim - Toggle and Switch Between Multiple Floating Terminals in NeoVim or Vim

tilix - A tiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK+ 3

AstroNvim - AstroNvim is an aesthetic and feature-rich neovim config that is extensible and easy to use with a great set of plugins

i3 - A tiling window manager for X11

AstroVim - AstroNvim is an aesthetic and feature-rich neovim config that is extensible and easy to use with a great set of plugins [Moved to: https://github.com/AstroNvim/AstroNvim]

Mosh - Mobile Shell

lazygit - simple terminal UI for git commands

neomux - Control Neovim from shells running inside Neovim.