til/tmux/toggle-between-two-common-sessions.md

Toggle Between Two Common Sessions

With certain projects, such as projects that involve separate frontend and backend codebases, I use a separate tmux session for each. This means that for certain tasks and features I find myself flipping back and forth between them constantly.

This can get tedious with an approach like <prefix> s where you then have to find and select the other session from the list.

A more efficient alternative is <prefix> L -- this takes you to the last session. So, if you are in the backend session and had previously been in the frontend session, then hitting <prefix> L will immediately place you in frontend. Hitting that exact same binding a second time will take you right back to backend.

See man tmux for more details.