On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Jeffrey Van Voorst <[email protected]> wrote: > > On a completely different note, screen rules (after someone showed me how to > use it).
blatantly OT, but i'd recommend tmux, as it's a clean/light/modern/powerful terminal mutiplexer: http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ http://tmux.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tmux/trunk/FAQ screen is largely regarded as unmaintainable/dead; tmux supports much much more, at 1/10th the footprint ... try it :-) it has a configuration that isn't directly from the depths of hell (ie. what looks like mankind's first attempt). the defaults are pretty good, but the default command-key is (Ctrl-b) annoys me. i use this config: https://github.com/xtfxme/ellipsis/blob/ellipsis/.../self/boot/tmux.conf ... which is mostly barebones. if you properly export your terminal type (256 colors! no distro does this correctly! wtf? it's 2012 people!) it will look really nice. proper exportation is annoying (lines 26-81): https://github.com/xtfxme/ellipsis/blob/ellipsis/.../self/data/profile/etc/bash/interactive ... but your terminal/vim/etc will look 100x better for apps than use 256 colors ... "xterm" is lowest common denominator (uhm, 8 colors), and it sux. you may need to install `ncurses-term` for debian-based distros to get the correct terminfo files to support `gnome-256color`, among others. -- C Anthony
