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How tmux Parses Escape Sequences Fast

Oct 11, 2026 11 min read Jay Hubbert

The single hottest path in tmux is not the redraw — it is the parser. Every byte that any program in any pane produces goes through tmux’s own VT parser, and a yes or a cat of a …

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