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Pair-program in the terminal: sharing a live pane

Jun 25, 20264 min readBy the Rysh team

Pairing usually means a screen-share and a lot of “can you scroll up?”. Rysh shares the terminal itself.

Terminal collaboration has always been bolt-on — tmux needs tmate, and most tools fall back to screen-sharing. Rysh treats sharing as a first-class feature of the multiplexer.

Share exactly what you mean

One command publishes a live pane to your workspace, and a teammate subscribes to watch it in real time. You can share at any granularity — a single pane, a pane group, a lane, or an entire tab with every pane inside it.

View or control

Shares can be view-only or full control, so a teammate can either look over your shoulder or take the keyboard. Because it’s the real terminal (not pixels), they get selectable text and their own scrollback — and secret redaction runs before anything reaches them.

From anywhere

The same shared session shows up in the web terminal and the mobile app, so reviewing a run or unblocking a teammate doesn’t require them to be at their desk. An optional upstream server ties workspaces together for the whole team.

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