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docs: an exited tile leaves the wall without a word
a73x 2026-08-28 19:53
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| @@ -120,11 +120,11 @@ and empty, and the next `mux HOST` is born into it — so emptying a machine | |||
| 120 | costs you nothing but the shell you meant to end. Ending the daemon itself | 120 | costs you nothing but the shell you meant to end. Ending the daemon itself |
| 121 | is `muxd stop`. | 121 | is `muxd stop`. |
| 122 | 122 | ||
| 123 | A session whose shell exits takes its tile off the wall, with the tile that | 123 | A session whose shell exits takes its tile off the wall. On a terminal the |
| 124 | ended saying so. On a terminal the LAST tile's exit leaves you on the empty | 124 | LAST tile's exit leaves you on the empty wall with the picker over it, not |
| 125 | wall with the picker over it, not back in your shell: `Ctrl-\` `d` is how | 125 | back in your shell: `Ctrl-\` `d` is how you leave. A piped `mux` has no wall |
| 126 | you leave. A piped `mux` has no wall to leave you on, so it exits with that | 126 | to leave you on, so it exits with that shell's code — `mux` stays something |
| 127 | shell's code — `mux` stays something you can put in a script. | 127 | you can put in a script. |
| 128 | 128 | ||
| 129 | The wheel goes to whatever is in front of it. At a shell prompt it moves | 129 | The wheel goes to whatever is in front of it. At a shell prompt it moves |
| 130 | mux's scrollback, three rows a notch. In a full-screen application that did | 130 | mux's scrollback, three rows a notch. In a full-screen application that did |