On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 08:43:00AM +0100, Iain Buclaw wrote: > On Sep 16, 2013 4:50 AM, "H. S. Teoh" <hst...@quickfur.ath.cx> wrote: [...] > > GNU screen is pretty awesome. But it has some warts that makes me > > not use it by default: > > > > - Its default escape sequence is extremely annoying (ctrl-A clashes > > with bash's go-to-beginning-of-line, which I use literally *all* > > the time). Switching it to something like ctrl-U makes it more > > tolerable. > > > > - It doesn't seem to pick up terminal settings correctly sometimes. > > Which results in needing to set $TERM manually, or type > > `TERM=rxvt-unicode program args`, instead of just `program args`. > > Quite annoying. > > > > > > Someone did suggest an alternative to GNU screen that is being > actively developed on (GNU Screen is kinda regarded as unmaintainable) > but I forget the name of it. [...]
Hmm. Now I'm tempted to write a GNU screen clone in D. Could be the next killer D app. ;-) T -- There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
