On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:14:54 +1000 David Seikel <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:10:59 +1200 Andre Renaud > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > No, they have an implementation of screen. The first one I used > > > (circa 1993) was from Sun. > > > > > > The wonkypedia article says the first pair of maintainers handed > > > it over to a second pair of maintainers who handed it over to the > > > gnu project. So it's a bit like Gold and Patch and Grub and EGCS > > > so on: somebody wrote a thing that worked and the Gnu project > > > managed to take it over and plaster their name all over it as the > > > versions they ship bloat and lose reliability. > > > > There is a BSD-licensed terminal multiplexer - 'tmux'. It's > > conceptually the same as GNU screen, but I'm assuming it's a > > completely clean code base. > > I did mention tmux when I talked about screen the first time. I was > saying that using my new infrastructure and perhaps something like the > nohup toy, it might be possible to implement something like screen or > tmux. It's not actually on my TODO, not part of the design to > specifically support such things, just mentioning that it might be > possible. > > I actually use tmux in preference to screen, but that's not a subject > for this list. I don't think either screen or tmux are on the toybox > roadmap. Just spotted waaay down the bottom of http://www.landley.net/code/toybox/todo.txt - "Maybe: screen," So I'll look at it I guess. Very low priority, but some of the other things I want to do should also support most of screen. -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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