Quick review of Zellij
There are two pieces of sticky software that I have never been able to escape from: vim & tmux.
tmux in particular was a huge upgrade for me over my previous workflow. It was the first time I realized that terminals could be smarter and do splits, tabs, etc.
Those things are built into terminal apps now, but ten years ago, as I was getting comfortable in the command-line, it was mind-blowing!
But I have always fought with tmux over a few specific things: sane scroll behavior, keybindings, and theming.
Not sure where I first saw Zellij, but when it was mentioned as a modern tmux, I was intrigued! Now, after a few weeks of usage, I'm confident Zellij is going to replace tmux on all my machines.
It has great defaults for those three things I mentioned above. Scrolling via the trackpad just works in Zellij. Zellij makes its keybindings very visible (see screenshots), but it also has support for the default tmux keybidings, which is a neat touch considering I have a decade of muscle memory doing
I'm excited to dig into some of the more advanced functionality too - I see that it has floating shell support, it can revive sessions after they've been killed, and I'm sure there's a lot more I haven't even discovered yet.
Like a lot of really good CLIs, it's been unobtrusive while I get my bearings. The complex stuff is still there! But I know it will stay out of my way until I'm ready for it.
It's a fun time to be into command-line tools! So many new things to try out.