Debugging zsh-autocomplete in tmux

Debugging zsh-autocomplete in tmux The Problem In tmux, I was annoyed by zsh-autocomplete, which displayed a search history. Once I was on a line I wanted, but needed to make modification, I attempt to use the left arrow key, which ended up moving me up the history menu. I had an idea that Claude would be able to help me debug this, but first, I discovered there was a discrepancy between tmux and non-tmux environments. ...

11 Nov 2025 · 5 min · Alan FungSchwarz

How Claude Helped Me Fix a tmux Keybinding Conflict

How Claude Helped Me Fix a tmux Keybinding Conflict As a years-long user of tmux, I’ve developed muscle memory for certain keybindings. One of these is prefix + ctrl-s for switching to the previous window (last-window). Recently, I installed tmux-resurrect, a plugin that saves and restores tmux sessions. By default, it binds prefix + ctrl-s to save the session state. I struggled with this for much too long; every time I tried to switch windows, I was inadvertently saving my tmux environment instead. I wasn’t looking forward to digging into the tmux-resurrect documentation, but then I realized that Claude could solve this problem quickly. ...

7 Nov 2025 · 2 min · Alan FungSchwarz