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? -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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