Nice find. :)

Cheers,
Abraham

On Tuesday 20 November 2012 08:55 AM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
> tmux is a great program.
>
> The developer was directly invited to become an OpenBSD
> dev by Theo.
>
> He is no ordinary chap. The innovations done by him are
>   simply dumbfounding.
>
> The most interesting is his ability to display the currently executing
>
> It also shows a colorful status bar with other info.
>
> Here is a screenshot.
>
> http://spam-cheetah.com/downloads/tmux.png
>
> tmux is terminal multiplexor which means you can run multiple
>   shell programs in the foreground you can split a window into
>   vertical and horizontal panes.
>
> This is quite sexy. For a long time I did not know it.
>
> Here are shots:
>
> http://spam-cheetah.com/downloads/horz.png
> http://spam-cheetah.com/downloads/vert.png
>
> The biggest use of this great idea originally envisaged by
>   the author of screen(1), a great way to do the same thing
>   albeit in a somewhat less capable way than tmux.
>
> The biggest use is that this is a default nohup capability
>   added to your playing music or download.
>
> If your machine powers down or your network cuts the
>   remote ssh session will continue to do your job if you run your commands
> using tmux.
>
> Another fun thing is that you can connect to it from anywhere and continue
> the session.
>
> tmux also helps you to do remote debugging and support
>   conferencing in which you collaborate with others or even
>   demo your code.
>
> In other words this is a text mode teamviewer.
>
> you can script this and do various other things.
>
> But the clock on the bottom in the default green status
>   bar is good enough for me.
>
> -Girish
>

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