Exiting on the client session should not kill the initiator session about tmate HOT 12 CLOSED

👍 for a detach button, Every partner I've paired with ask me "How do I detach?"

I respond "ctrl-b d"

"ctrl-b ctrl-d got it"

"Nooooooooo!" session ended 😱

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This is not as clear cut. Should tmate then override all exits of terminal sessions, or only the last one?

Wouldn't this be solved by read-only mode (a future feature), but if you're truly pairing, you're equals and trust one-another.

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In the tmate status bar, we can show a global "detach" hotkey, like how http://mosh.mit.edu/ does it on their screenshot

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What hotkey would be a good one to detach?

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Oh but in tmux you can assign any hot key to detach that wasn't the issue. Was your idea to have a mouse clickable portion of the status bar which would fire the detach? So you could then tell your not-so-keybord-focused colleagues to just click the detach button in the lower right corner?

Not that I would ever use something like that, My hands never leave the keyboard, But to those less enlightened mortals it's better to provide a (big red candy like) button to click to prevent them from accidentally killing the session.

Thoughts?

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If you go in that direction, the perfect button is the "close window" button on the terminal GUI. This will kill ssh, which will detach the session. The key presses <enter>~. will also kill ssh which will detach as well.

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😊 Ok now I feel silly.

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I feel I should document, or tell the user that they can actually do that, because I haven't thought about this until you told me that you wanted a button :)

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Maybe ctrl-x would be ok to detach ?

Very nice work, by the way :)

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Nah, I use ctrl+x to decrement numbers in VIM :)

Closing the window is good enough :)

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Damn you're right…

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ctrl+a d used to detach a GNU Screen.

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