Question

In tmux command mode, the following creates new window and opens vim inside:

:new-window vim

When you quit vim, the window is also closed. Is there a way to make it stay?

Answer 1

tmux has an option for this: remain-on-exit:

tmux set remain-on-exit on

Answer 2

I realise this is a long dead question. But I m a recent user of tmux and I had this same question. It turns out that you might want to do this:

tmux new-session bash -l

That gets you a bash window (login shell). Then, run whatever commands you want. When they re done, they return to a command prompt, like you expect. I think a lot of people are looking for an interactive screen -like behaviour. This is an easy way to do that.

Answer 3

I use send-keys so that it "types" the command into the shell. Here s my get.all script, which fires up many commands, some of which I may need to interact with after they re done (and the ones I don t, have exit):

#!/bin/sh
tmux att -t get ||
tmux 
  new -s get -n emacs ; 
  send-keys  get.emacs  C-m ; 
  neww -n git ; 
  send-keys  get.git  C-m ; 
  neww -n mini ; 
  send-keys  get.mini  C-m ; 
  neww -n port ; 
  send-keys  get.port  C-m ; 
  neww -n rakudo ; 
  send-keys  get.rakudo  C-m ; 
  neww -n neil ; 
  send-keys  get.neil && get.neil2 && exit  C-m ; 
  neww -n red ; 
  send-keys  get.red && exit  C-m ; 
  neww -n cpan ; 
  send-keys  get.cpan && exit  C-m ; 
  selectw -t emacs

Answer 4

Moving good comment of @Jo So to a separate answer.

This command drops to shell once the first ls -la finishes: tmux new-window "/bin/sh -c ls -la; exec bash "

Answer 5

If you intend to quit the process in the new window normally (as in, proper exit), then tmux new-window "vim ; exec bash" would mostly be fine.

However, if you would intend to quit the new process via system interrupt (SIGINT for example). You will have to use trap.

tmux new-window "bash -c trap "bash" INT; tail -f foo "

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