Vim, tmux, and Fish

1 · Aaron Patterson · Jan. 18, 2023, 8:33 p.m.
Summary
I do most of my text editing with MacVim, but when I pair with people I like to use tmate. tmate is just an easy way to connect tmux sessions with a remote person. But this means that I go from coding in a GUI to coding in a terminal. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem, but I had made a Fish alias that would open the MacVim GUI every time I typed vim in the terminal. Of course when I’m pairing via tmate, the other people cannot see the GUI, so I would have to remember a different command to ope...