I have a .tmux.conf which I use on different machines with different tmux versions installed.
I want to set different mouse options, depending on the tmux version.
On one machine I have version 2.0
on the other 2.1
.
I do not get his part right
if "[[(( $(tmux -V | cut -c 6-) < 2.1 ))]]" \
"set -g mode-mouse on;" \
"set -g mouse-resize-pane on;" \
"set -g select-pane on;" \
"set -g select-window on" "set -g mouse on"
When I source the file
$ tmux source-file .tmux.conf
I get this message
.tmux.conf:12: unknown command: set -g mouse-resize-pane on
The machine where I run it has version 2.1
so it shouldn't set the four options.
I want to set the four options when running tmux 2.0 or less or the one option when running tmux 2.1.
This bash statement works
$ tmux -V
tmux 2.1
$ if [[(( $(tmux -V | cut -c 6-) < 2.1 ))]];then echo $?;else echo $?;fi
1
Based on @ericx's answer and @thiagowfx's answer I put the following together which covers many of the listed incompatibilties from version 2.0 onwards:
# Version-specific commands [grumble, grumble]
# See: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/blob/master/CHANGES
run-shell 'tmux setenv -g TMUX_VERSION $(tmux -V | \
sed -En "s/^tmux[^0-9]*([.0-9]+).*/\1/p")'
if-shell -b '[ "$(echo "$TMUX_VERSION < 2.1" | bc)" = 1 ]' {
set -g mouse-select-pane on; set -g mode-mouse on
set -g mouse-resize-pane on; set -g mouse-select-window on
set -g message-fg red
set -g message-bg black
set -g message-attr bright
set -g window-status-bg default
set -g window-status-fg default
set -g window-status-current-attr bold
set -g window-status-current-bg cyan
set -g window-status-current-fg default
set -g window-status-bell-fg red
set -g window-status-bell-bg black
set -g window-status-activity-fg white
set -g window-status-activity-bg black
}
# In version 2.1 "mouse" replaced the previous 4 mouse options
if-shell -b '[ "$(echo "$TMUX_VERSION >= 2.1" | bc)" = 1 ]' {
set -g mouse on
}
# UTF8 is autodetected in 2.2 onwards, but errors if explicitly set
if-shell -b '[ "$(echo "$TMUX_VERSION < 2.2" | bc)" = 1 ]' \
set -g utf8 on
set -g status-utf8 on
set -g mouse-utf8 on
}
# bind-key syntax changed in 2.4 -- selection / copy / paste
if-shell -b '[ "$(echo "$TMUX_VERSION < 2.4" | bc)" = 1 ]' {
bind-key -t vi-copy v begin-selection
bind-key -t vi-copy V send -X select-line
bind-key -t vi-copy C-v rectangle-toggle
bind-key -t vi-copy y copy-pipe 'xclip -selection clipboard -in'
}
# Newer versions
if-shell -b '[ "$(echo "$TMUX_VERSION < 2.9" | bc)" = 1 ]' {
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi v send -X begin-selection
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi V send -X select-line
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi C-v send -X rectangle-toggle
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi y send -X copy-pipe-and-cancel 'xclip -selection clipboard -in'
}
if-shell -b '[ "$(echo "$TMUX_VERSION >= 2.9" | bc)" = 1 ]' {
set -g message-style fg=red,bg=black
set -g message-style bright
set -g window-status-style fg=default,bg=default
set -g window-status-current-style fg=default,bg=cyan,bold
set -g window-status-bell-style fg=red,bg=black
set -g window-status-activity-style fg=white,bg=black
}
I raised an issue about the problems with tmux
's non-backward-compatibility here. The summary is that the tmux
devs will not support backward compatibility, nor will they adopt a version numbering scheme which highlights which versions contain breaking changes. 😢
I raised an issue to support numeric comparators for %if
which was implemented in v3.0.