On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:22:37 +0530, Kingsly John wrote: > +++ Girish Venkatachalam [2012-11-20 08:55:17]: > >> tmux is a great program. > > When reviewing software it helps to be grounded. Leave the superlatives > to a certain fruit company that makes "magical" products. > >> 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. > > Just because someone has done great things doesn't mean everything he > does is awesome/should be praised sky high. > (You've not even mentioned this "no ordinary chap"'s name.) > >> 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. > > GNU Screen does all that too and has been around since 1987. (25 years!) > So tmux is just a rehash/clone of a 25 year old program and probably an > even older concept. > >> This is quite sexy. For a long time I did not know it. > > Ignorance isn't a feature/doesn't make a product better. > >> 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. > > This is something that is absolutely baseless and I have been hearing > from every single person that has "discovered" tmux. > > As someone who has been using "GNU Screen" since my initial foray into > Linux (~15 years now), I have yet to find a single way that tmux is > "more capable". >
Kingsly , i totally agree with you. I have been using screen extensively and tried tmux for some time. I usually have 15 or 20 windows inside screen and there are 3 or 4 screen sessions running for months in my office PC. bash-completion package and ssh and screen makes a powerful combination, that makes my life simpler. After giving tmux a try for 3 months, i didnt find anything very impressive that can't be done in screen. My screenrc has the status bar similar to tmux or from my perspective better. In my screenrc, i have status bar at bottom with each window of ssh named after hostname i ssh. So if i login to 15 hosts in 15 windows then there are 15 tabs in status bar each titles after the hostname of the machine i have ssh'ed. with regards, ashwin _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
