On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 22:42 Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 10:28:20PM -0400, David Mertz wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 10:16 PM Steven D'Aprano > > > > > I think that if we go ahead with this, we shouldn't allow lack > > > of support for screen and/or tmux to stand in the way. A 99% solution > is > > > better than a 0% solution :-) > > > > > > > What manner of savages run a terminal without a multiplexer? :-) > > Savages with a terminal that natively supports multiple tabs, and a GUI > desktop environment that supports multiple terminal windows :-P > > I understand using screen or tmux when ssh'ing into a remote machine, > but what advantage are they when you are using the local machine via a > GUI? One advantage is you can outright quit the terminal application and the session remains active in the multiplexer. Since I'm clumsy, I've been saved by this more than once. - Smith
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