14:55:23drmeisterAs long as bigmac is up tmux will maintain a virtual terminal. Once you reconnect to the tmux session the terminal restores
14:56:09drmeisterYou can even connect to the tmux session multiple times. Tmux will resize to the smallest window size. It’s really very neat.
14:59:28Bikewell i mean - say i start tmux with -a, and work with that, and then unexpected the internet cuts. When i log back in, how do I get back to where I was? Just tmux -a again, and it finds the old session?
15:13:07scymtymyes, tmux a attaches to a running session. if you don't specify one explicitly and there is only one, it will automatically attach to that session
15:13:57scymtyminitially creating the session is just "tmux" in case that was the point of confusion
15:15:11jackdanielit may be worth considering rebinding C-b that is tmux's equivalent of C-x -- it was hard at first for my finger memory to have going back one char require hitting C-b C-b
15:16:59Bikeoh, wait, yeah, i see, first time just type tmux