tmux

Install command: 
brew install tmux

Terminal multiplexer

https://tmux.github.io/

License: ISC

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/tmux.json

Formula code: tmux.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon		 golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 3.8
head ⚡️ HEAD

Depends on:

libevent 2.1.13 Asynchronous event library
ncurses 6.6 Text-based UI library
utf8proc 2.12.0 Clean C library for processing UTF-8 Unicode data
jemalloc 5.4.0 Implementation of malloc emphasizing fragmentation avoidance

Depends on when building from source:

pkgconf 3.0.10 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

Uses from macOS: bison (build)

Binaries: tmux

Example configuration has been installed to:
    $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/tmux/share/tmux

GitHub Packages downloads:

Last 30 days735,576
Downloads11,203,592
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Analytics:

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Installs67,261148,914626,139
Installs (--HEAD)2396042,484
Installs on Request64,790143,992596,977
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Build Errors55
Build Errors (--HEAD)2