Try tmux to replace screen, was: How to spawn terminal/screen to reply to messages separately?

2010-03-30 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Derek Martin [03-30-10 21:49]: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 08:58:20PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > 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.

Re: FAQ: How to spawn terminal/screen to reply to messages separately?

2010-03-30 Thread Derek Martin
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 08:58:20PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Nicolas Williams [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

Re: FAQ: How to spawn terminal/screen to reply to messages separately?

2010-03-30 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Nicolas Williams [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. It makes some of screen's *features* more functional such as split screen w/o using

Re: FAQ: How to spawn terminal/screen to reply to messages separately?

2010-03-30 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:44:35AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 30Mar2010 17:51, Nicolas Williams wrote: > | > That's surprising; it suggests your $TERM isn't set up right outside > | > mutt. > | > | It's a terminfo / libslang issue. > > Lucky the screen internal terminal and xterm both ba

Re: FAQ: How to spawn terminal/screen to reply to messages separately?

2010-03-30 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 30Mar2010 17:51, Nicolas Williams wrote: | > That's surprising; it suggests your $TERM isn't set up right outside | > mutt. | | It's a terminfo / libslang issue. Lucky the screen internal terminal and xterm both base off the ANSI stuff, eh? | > | screen -ls output | > | gets mangled, but tha

Re: FAQ: How to spawn terminal/screen to reply to messages separately?

2010-03-30 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 09:44:09AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 30Mar2010 11:11, Nicolas Williams wrote: > | On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:43:08AM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: > | > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 07:04:22PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > | > > If I complete the reply immediately (a

Re: FAQ: How to spawn terminal/screen to reply to messages separately?

2010-03-30 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 30Mar2010 11:11, Nicolas Williams wrote: | On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:43:08AM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: | > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 07:04:22PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: | > > If I complete the reply immediately (as now), it's all seamless. | > > | > > But if I want to defer the reply

Re: FAQ: How to spawn terminal/screen to reply to messages separately?

2010-03-30 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 30Mar2010 10:43, Nicolas Williams wrote: | On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 07:04:22PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: | > On 29Mar2010 17:19, Nicolas Williams wrote: | > | I saw in the archives that this is a bit of an FAQ, and it seems that to | > | this day there's not much of an answer, sadly. | > |

Re: FAQ: How to spawn terminal/screen to reply to messages separately?

2010-03-30 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:43:08AM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 07:04:22PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > If I complete the reply immediately (as now), it's all seamless. > > > > But if I want to defer the reply for later, I simply detach from screen > > and reattach

Re: FAQ: How to spawn terminal/screen to reply to messages separately?

2010-03-30 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 07:04:22PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 29Mar2010 17:19, Nicolas Williams wrote: > | I saw in the archives that this is a bit of an FAQ, and it seems that to > | this day there's not much of an answer, sadly. > > Here's what I do: > set edit_headers=yes > set edi

Re: FAQ: How to spawn terminal/screen to reply to messages separately?

2010-03-30 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 29Mar2010 17:19, Nicolas Williams wrote: | I saw in the archives that this is a bit of an FAQ, and it seems that to | this day there's not much of an answer, sadly. Here's what I do: set edit_headers=yes set editor=muttedit set autoedit=yes Muttedit is here: http://www.cskk.ezoshostin