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As we push the limits of tmux further and further you are bound to end up in a situation where you are mashing down a hotkey and it's just not doing what you want it to do, and you have no idea why.
show-messages is a tmux command that can be used to show what tmux is
actually doing behind the scenes. This might highlight any hot key conflicts
you might have in your ~/.tmux.conf.
man page for show-messages
In case you wnat more information about show-messages, here is the man page.
show-messages [-JT] [-t target-client] (alias: showmsgs) Show server messages or information. Messages are stored, up to a maximum of the limit set by the message-limit server option. -J and -T show debugging information about jobs and terminals.
for more information on how I navigate tmux, check out this full post
Also check out the full YouTube tmux-playlist to see all of the videos in this series.