On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 08:58:20PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Nicolas Williams <[email protected]> [03-30-10 20:53]:
> > 
> > Thanks for your script and usage info,
> > 
> 
> You might consider looking at tmux as a replacement for screen.  I find
> it much more robust and the learning curve is not much.  

I found screen's learning curve to be about 10 minutes for all the
basic functionality... everything I use frequently.  The help is fine
and so is the man page for more complicated stuff.

> It makes some of screen's *features* more functional such as split
> screen w/o using one of the screen numbers that allow direct access
> (<ctrl-a>2).  

I don't really understand what you mean...

> Tmux uses <ctrl-b> rather than <ctrl-a>,

This is configurable in screen.

> and allows direct access to > 10 screens, buffers, ....

I have 13 screens in the window I'm typing in right now.  I'm not sure
what you mean by "buffers" but I guess you might mean scroll-back
buffers.  Screen has that too.

Maybe you could comment a little more in depth about how tmux is
better?

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