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# Zellij - A workspace lives in your terminal
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Zellij is a terminal workspace with batteries included.
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At its core, it is a terminal multiplexer (similar to tmux and screen), but this is merely its infrastructure layer.
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Zellij is very user-friendly and easy to use, with a step-by-step hint system that will help you get to know the keybindings, which is very like the Neovim or helix.
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> By contrast, tmux's key design is counterintuitive, there is no prompt system, and the plug-in performance is rubbish. It's really a pain to use.
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> tmux's inital release was in 2007, it's too old, I would recommend any users that do not have a experience with multiplexer to use zellij instead of tmux.
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## Why use zellij as the detault terminal environment?
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By auto start zellij on shell login, and exit the shell session on zellij exit, we can use zellij as the default terminal environment.
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By this way, We will only use the most basic features of the terminal emulator(kitty/alacritty/wezterm/...),
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while most of the functions of terminal are provided by zellij.
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Thus we can easily switch to any terminal emulator without losing any key functions,
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and do not need to take care of the differences between different terminal emulators.
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And Zellij can be used not only locally, but also on any remote server, which is very convenient. Learn once and use everywhere!
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> Yeah, you didn't misread it, zellij is very suitable for not only remotely, but also locally!
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Some features such as search/copy/scrollback in different terminal emulators are implemented in different ways, and has different user experience.
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For example, Wezterm's default search function is very basic, and it's not easy to use. Kitty's scrollback search/copy is really tricky to use.
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As for some Editor such as Neovim, its intergrated terminal is really useful, but zellij is more powerful and useful than it, and more stable!
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Zellij overcomes these problems, and provides a unified user experience for all terminal emulators!
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Teminal emulators should only be responsible for displaying characters.
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## Passthrough mode(Lock Mode)
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`Ctrl + g` lock the outer zellij interface, and all keys will be sent to the focused pane.
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It's extremely useful when you want to:
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1. Use zellij locally for daily work, and use a remote zellij via ssh to do some work on the remote server.
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1. To avoid the key conflicts between zellij and the program running in the terminal, such as vim, tmux, etc.
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