One of the great things about tmux is that you can create flexible development layouts.

You can easily display the output of a command and auto update it using watch . It has a similar end user experience as tail -f , except for commands instead of files. For example:

$ watch git status

watch will run git status every 2 seconds and display the output.

If you want color in your git status , you’ll need to configure git to display color when being run by watch .