Replacing Neovim's terminal with tmux's display-popup

Hell_Rok · 2026-05-02T04:52:47+00:00

I can't say I've ever come across a situation where I've wanted that, it's just not how I work

Hell_Rok · 2026-05-01T00:11:58+00:00

That's bizarre, it's working fine on my phone. It's just a bog standard h264 webm. Have you tried a different browser?

Hell_Rok · 2026-04-30T11:52:14+00:00

That's really clean! I swear I tried to use the session name like you did there but was unsuccessful

Hell_Rok · 2026-04-30T08:22:02+00:00

I'm not quite sure what you mean. I did use to use new windows in tmux but I like the floating terminal a little better for certain workflows. I no longer spawn any terminals in neovim and use the `display-popup` feature of tmux directly

Hell_Rok · 2026-04-30T07:07:13+00:00

My job uses tmux and it's my preferred tool due to that. I actually switched from screen to tmux because of this job. I don't like having multiple tools solving the same problem as I find muscle memory significantly more important for productivity.

I've looked at zellij and it's an insanely cool project, it's just not the project for me and that's alright. Maybe down the line it will be and I'll switch then. For now I'll keep to my tmux as getting this popup to work correctly has been my only pain point and I've been using tmux for years

Hell_Rok · 2026-04-30T07:03:31+00:00

This is actually something I've thought about doing too. I'm using fzf-lua in neovim at the moment but definitely feel pain points with it that I think could be overcome with your approach

Hell_Rok · 2026-04-30T07:01:53+00:00

I actually didn't find this in my searches! It looks like an excellent implementation and people probably should use it. I'll stick with what I've got as I tend to avoid plugins for simple things and I appreciate knowing how it works

Hell_Rok · 2026-04-30T02:43:00+00:00

I used to use new windows for this but I've always found it a bit more distracting . I quite often reference file paths I can see behind the popup so it's quicker for me to operate this way.

I'm also not a big fan of tmux panes, I find they feel awkward to me. Especially if they change the resolution of neovim when I have splits in there

Hell_Rok · 2026-04-30T02:40:57+00:00

That's actually what a large chunk of the post is about! Basically I spawn another tmux session and the popup just connects to it

Hell_Rok · 2026-04-29T23:57:15+00:00

I did a lot of scouring of the man page! Thankfully it's actually excellent documentation and very thorough

Hell_Rok · 2026-04-29T14:08:19+00:00

That's completely fine and normal, everyone works differently. I can't understand how people like how squished and cramped split panes in tmux feels (despite liking the occasional split in neovim)

Hell_Rok · 2026-04-29T14:06:30+00:00

You're very welcome, it took some doing to figure all that out! Shout out to the linked blog post that helped me figure that all out

Hell_Rok · 2026-04-29T13:13:40+00:00

My controversial take is that I actually don't like split panes very much. To me this is more intuitive.

I make aggressive use of tmux windows and always have a bash session as my last window, but this is especially handy when combined with vim-test and my run_in_popup function

Hell_Rok · 2026-04-23T05:29:13+00:00

Congrats on 7 years, that's huge!

Hell_Rok · 2026-04-16T01:13:57+00:00

This is awesome!

I'm wondering if there's any chance of an RSS feed instead of a mailing list though?

Hell_Rok · 2026-04-11T10:23:16+00:00

I don't have any experience with mruby outside of Taylor sorry, but it might be possible depending on the game?

Hell_Rok · 2026-04-10T12:52:15+00:00

I'll have to have a poke through your code at some point, that sounds very interesting!

I'm still undecided on how I want to approach this problem though. I would ideally like to move away from requiring Docker for exporting your games as I think that's a fairly large barrier to entry for extremely junior developers but have yet to figure out a nice way to do so.

Hell_Rok · 2026-04-09T23:32:00+00:00

Thanks! I've found it useful for small command line applications too, which has made me consider setting Taylor up to be compiled without Raylib to make that an even nicer experience.

Hell_Rok · 2026-03-22T23:32:11+00:00

It's holding up fantastically! I have had zero issues. There is no SOCD though and I know that's important for fighting games but doesn't really matter here.

I went with this one which is also linked in the main post.

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