Peer Console Development (tmate)

Tmate is a way to share a console window or set of console windows. It’s basically a fork of tmux that makes sessions network enabled. It doesn’t matter where the participants are located - inbound firewall rules don’t interfere since it’s all outbound connections. 

Install tmate

brew tap nviennot/tmate
brew install tmate

Start the SSH Server

tmate -S /tmp/tmate.sock new-session -d

Wait for a connection

tmate -S /tmp/tmate.sock wait tmate-ready 

Get the SSH Command

tmate -S /tmp/tmate.sock display -p '#{tmate_ssh}'

Share the output of the above command with someone you want to share the terminal window with. You should both run the command. The person who runs the SSH Server is the host of the session.

# Example session: (now expired)
ssh [email protected]

Interacting with Tmate

^b + c create a new window
^b + n move to next window
^b + p move to previous window