'How would I repeat TMUX send command x number of times
Sometimes I find myself coding in some repl, writing and debugging some function/logic with a little bit of trial and error, kind of testing some thought process out.
If it's a simple function, I can tap the up arrow until I find the start, hit enter, do the same thing for a few lines until I hit the spot I want to edit.
But if I run a few other commands and play around with a few other things before my mind gets back to the other idea I'd like to play with more, I might find myself hitting up repeatedly, like 25 times, then enter, and repeat, until I'm ready to edit.
I do this because I had a ahha moment and I don't want to have to rethink all that work and forget my ahha.
Since I'm always in tmux, I figured maybe I could find some way of sending keypresses x number of times.
What I found was, I could hit ctrl+b, then :send Up to simulate my up arrow key.
Being a heavy vim user, I figured there might be a way I can enter the quantity as well, like I can in Vim.
For example, Ctrl+b :15 send Up, or :send 15 Up.
No luck.
I've searched for it using different keywords, no luck either.
I feel like I'm missing something simple and easy but am brainfarting it at the moment.
How could I repeat this send command x number of times?
Solution 1:[1]
Something like this, perhaps?
:run-shell 'for i in $(seq 1 25); do tmux send-keys "#$i" Enter; done'
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| Solution | Source |
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| Solution 1 | atomicstack |