That would be fantastic. I imagine a fun format where you are presented with the bug, and given some appropriate, but short, length of time to try and diagnose it. (Let's say, 15 minutes to an hour.) Then, the presenter polls everyone to see if anyone figured it out, and explains the actual bug and the fix in an actual presentation.
Not a VIM bug, not a Tmux bug. Not even a "pivotal/tmux-config".
By the way, as I understand, one shouldn't fiddle with &t_* options, unless strictly necessary. It's supposed to be a Bad Idea ® because it makes things less portable.
(Although I'm also guilty of this, changing the cursor color in insert mode is just too cool for me to resist).
I wish I was smart enough to document things as thoroughly as she did while debugging this problem. The solution was simple and wouldn't really have been a very exciting read, but since she was smart enough to document the process she was able to produce a really meaningful post that shows off the fruits of great documentation and sleuth work.
exactly; in the emacs community, when somebody is chasing down a weird bug, they get asked to run emacs with the flags that disable all the startup customization as the very first thing, because 90% of the time, its a problem with some interaction in the user's (byzantine) ~/.emacs.d
AKA why I hate unix and the developers responsible for most of its tools with a seething passion, condensed down into a single webpage.
Anyone who reads the part where t_F9 actually means F19 and doesn't get completely enraged at the person who made that decision never gets to work for me...
The tools in question, and the OS in question, bear little to no resemblance to unix or its tools. Blaming unix for the monstrosities that it inadvertently spawned isn't really fair.
Hrm, it seems to me that this is just a byproduct of not following the full installation instructions of the plugin located at: https://github.com/pivotal/tmux-config
This reminds me of the stories about TECO, where programmers of the time would play a game "guess what happens when you type in your name in command mode".
She didn't do the install, she just encountered a pre-configured system that wasn't working properly. The documentation for vim and tmux is extensive. If you sit down to "RTFM", you're going to disappear for a week or two, and you probably won't even realise it when you read (and then forget) the bit that you actually needed.
Honestly, if you are not impressed by this piece of bug hunting, you are either an absolute genius, or someone without enough experience to appreciate just how difficult what she accomplished actually was (note the elegance of the solution - simply applying a symbolic link). I'm going to go with option 2, because I would already know who you are if it was option 1, but I don't, you're an anonymous internet 'nym.
