Tmuxinator VS vim-tmux-navigator

Compare Tmuxinator vs vim-tmux-navigator and see what are their differences.

Tmuxinator

Manage complex tmux sessions easily (by tmuxinator)

vim-tmux-navigator

Seamless navigation between tmux panes and vim splits (by christoomey)
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Tmuxinator vim-tmux-navigator
44 42
12,431 4,896
1.0% -
6.8 3.4
3 days ago 11 days ago
Ruby Vim Script
MIT License MIT License
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Tmuxinator

Posts with mentions or reviews of Tmuxinator. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-02.
  • 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.
  • Kera Desktop: open-source, cross-platform, web-based desktop environment
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jun 2023
    I once bought a 32 core ThreadRipper and tried to get along with using a cheap £200 Windows 10 laptop to remote into the threadripper while in coffee shops and use the ThreadRipper to do my work.

    The £200 Windows 10 laptop wasn't powerful enough, it was too laggy. Even on Wifi.

    I love the idea of the X11 protocol. And I still love the idea of a web desktop. Something that is supremely well integrated and allows me to move workloads between client and server seamlessly. This idea I really like. The ability to outsource computation and storage seamlessly. A process can be moved between machines seamlessly.

    This could be modelled in Javascript and promises that can be sent around. Microservices in the desktop environment.

    I looked at tools that would bring up tmux sessions with everything preloaded. (https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator)

    ScrapScript has very good ideas in this area of distributing dependencies and storage. (https://scrapscript.org/) There is also val town.

    I never use KDE Plasma widgets or the sidebar widgets that Mac provided.

    There is so many exciting ideas that could be tried out but I worry they're all too big ideas to be implemented.

  • Tmuxinator – manage tmux sessions easily
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 May 2023
  • How to save workspaces?
    2 projects | /r/tmux | 21 Jan 2023
    tmuxinator
  • Getting Started with Tmux
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Dec 2022
    I use https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator for my workspaces. Doesn't save ad-hoc layouts, but usually I find one layout that works per project, then create a tmuxinator config for it, so after reboot, it's a short "tmuxinator start $my-project" away to get back to how I want it to be.
  • Is tmux appropriate for automation in a script?
    1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 7 Dec 2022
    you might be interested in: https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator
  • A Quick and Easy Guide to Tmux
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Oct 2022
    I’ve become a huge fan of tmuxinator. Incredible tool for defining templates for tmux.

    https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator

  • Decision to Vim - #2. vim repo and vimtutor, hammerspoon
    6 projects | dev.to | 9 Aug 2022
  • zoom only one side of the window?
    3 projects | /r/tmux | 4 Jul 2022
    I doubt that would be possible with tmux's built-in zoom functionality (if it is, I'm not aware). You can use tools such as tmuxinator to create cusotm layouts, but I think "zoom" in tmux means "cover the whole window"
  • Been there, done that
    3 projects | /r/commandline | 21 Jun 2022
    mprocs looks pretty cool. In the past I've used Tmuxinator or Tmuxp configs for stuff like that.

vim-tmux-navigator

Posts with mentions or reviews of vim-tmux-navigator. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-27.
  • How would I get the name of the program running in the window that zellij run was ran in?
    2 projects | /r/zellij | 27 Nov 2023
    I'm a tmux migrant and wanted functionality similar to tmux-navigator for vim. In short, it lets me bind the same key combination to change vim splits and tmux scripts that either switch panes or forward the input to the vim plugin that does one of the other. Say you have an empty pane, a pane with vim with two splits and a third pane pane all in a line. The first time the user wants to move focus, vim is not running so the script simply moves focus in tmux. The scond time the user presses the bind, it's passed to vim and the vim plugin sees you have a split to move to so you move focus between splits. The third press the plugin realizes that there are no more panes, so it moves you to the final tmux pane.
  • Navigate between bspwm windows and kitty terminal panes using the same keybinds?
    1 project | /r/bspwm | 23 Jul 2023
    There's also a vim plugin that applies the same idea but with vim windows and tmux panes: https://github.com/christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator.
  • question about mappings
    1 project | /r/neovim | 29 Jun 2023
    Since you're using Tmux check out vim-tmux-navigator which allows for seamless navigation between tmux and (neo)vim panes.
  • termux style🖤
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 21 Apr 2023
    For example, the killer plugin in tmux for me would be vim-tmux-navigator which allows you to switch seemlessly between Vim and tmux. The reason why you would want this is because tmux is a better option than using Vim's built-in terminal.
  • Terminal plugins vs tmux pane
    1 project | /r/neovim | 18 Apr 2023
    With https://github.com/christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator I don't see the need to use Neovim's terminal. Neovim's terminal somehow seems slower and my terminal keybindings didn't quite work.
  • Install plugin in LazyVim
    1 project | /r/neovim | 20 Feb 2023
    Hi, I just installed lazyvim yesterday and want to install the following plugin vim-tmux navigator in lazyvim. I am new to neovim. Any guidance would be very helpful. Thanks.
  • wow: Tmux navigation works out-of-the-box!
    3 projects | /r/AstroNvim | 8 Feb 2023
  • Plugin for following logs?
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 23 Jan 2023
    Might I suggest tmux? You'd get all you needed and there is a nice plugin https://github.com/christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator that lets you set up a single layer of movement keys (i use ctrl-h/j/k/l) to move around between both nvim splits and tmux splits.
  • using nvim + tmux
    6 projects | /r/neovim | 10 Jan 2023
    To begin, you should check out tmux plugins manger/tpm, which will feel pretty familiar if you're used to working with nvim plugins. Once you have that up and running you can plug vim-tmux-navigator, which allows you to move smoothly through tmux and nvim panes using ctrl-h/j/k/l. There are various other tmux plugins that are super-useful for customizing your tmux workspace.
  • Any lua implementation of floaterm
    1 project | /r/neovim | 11 Dec 2022
    Use tmux for terminal management. I honestly held out for a while, but eventually bit the bullet and it’s so nice, I’d never go back. Especially with https://github.com/christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Tmuxinator and vim-tmux-navigator you can also consider the following projects:

tmuxp - 🖥️ Session manager for tmux, build on libtmux.

tmux.nvim - A tiny plugin for seamless switching between vim splits and tmux panes

awesome-tmux - A list of awesome resources for tmux

iterm2

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.

i3-resurrect - Simple solution to saving and restoring i3 workspaces

edex-ui - A cross-platform, customizable science fiction terminal emulator with advanced monitoring & touchscreen support.

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

Terjira - Terjira is a very interactive and easy to use CLI tool for Jira.

alpha-nvim - a lua powered greeter like vim-startify / dashboard-nvim

zellij - A terminal workspace with batteries included

tmux-suspend - Plugin that lets you suspend local tmux session, so that you can work with nested remote tmux session painlessly.