Multi-user tmux made easy with wemux

Two of the many things in the development community that are growing in popularity are remote work and pair programming. Traditionally, pairing meant you had two people looking at the same computer and one person doing the typing. This is great, as long as you are in the same room.

What about those developers, like myself, who rarely (if ever) find themselves in the same room as their coworkers? Enter wemux by Matt Furden, the tmux tool that makes it simple for multiple users to connect to the same tmux session so you can see the same thing.

The only requirement, according to the README, is tmux >= 1.6. Installation is simple, with the preferred method being Homebrew:

>> brew install https://github.com/downloads/zolrath/wemux/wemux.rb

After installation, you — the host — would start a new wemux server:

>> wemux start

At this time, anyone else — the clients — could connect with any of the following three commands:

• wemux mirror - attach to the server in read-only mode.
• wemux pair - attach to the server in pair mode, where both the client and the host can control the terminal.
• wemux rogue - attach to the server in rogue mode, where the client and host can work independently of eachother.

There are plenty of other features, from listing users to running multiple wemux servers at once. Once you get the hang of it, pairing while working remotely becomes much simpler than screen sharing on Skype!

You can find out everything you need to know in the README or discuss this post on HackerNews.