★ cmux: search all windows
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Problem statement: given a cmux session with a dozen1 workspaces, how can you
quickly find the one you’re looking for?
Keyboard shortcut (macOS): Cmd + ⌥ + F.
Source.
There’s also a system tray icon for cmux with a Search All Windows... menu
item.
How did I look this up? Via Kagi Search.
My query was cmux search shorcut?.
The question mark (?)2 at the end triggers the quick
answer feature, including
links to sources:
Kagi’s Quick Answer quickly produces a summary of the results across the pages returned and provides references to the pages that are used. This functionality allows you to quickly consume the desired information from the search while giving you the pointers to dive deeper into the information if desired.
Whenever I know exactly the shape of the problem that I want to look up and solve, and whenever it is byte-sized enough, I often resort to this approach; it is very efficient.
In the old pre-LLM days, I would instead scour Stack
Overflow or the upstream documentations.
In the early LLM days, I would ask ChatGPT or Duck, but I’d be limited to the training cut-off of the underlying model.
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“““This should not happen”””. We’re poor humans with poor attention spans. Managing more than 4-7 workspaces at once is counter-productive due to context switching tax. One should not end up in this situation in the first place. ↩︎
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The friction of adding the question mark is important and deliberate, it is what enables the decision to get a digest of
slopLLM results. I quite dislike the approach of other search engines, unconditionally shoving questionable AI results on everyone’s face. ↩︎