Re: [gentoo-user] tmux vs. screen

2010-11-18 Thread Stroller
On 18/11/2010, at 11:25am, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:46:16 +, Stroller wrote: > >> If you're not using a GUI terminal emulator with a scrollbar, then may >> I respectfully suggest you install `tmux` (a replacement for GNU >> `screen`) and use it. It takes a little while to

Re: [gentoo-user] tmux vs. screen

2010-11-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Stroller wrote: > I think what really won my heart, and did so quite quickly, is that tmux has a >status bar configured by default. I'm pretty sure you can do that with screen, >too, but I've never bothered, because it seemed too much effort to learn and it >just s

Re: [gentoo-user] tmux vs. screen

2010-11-18 Thread Florian CROUZAT
On 18 nov. 2010, at 20:52, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Stroller > wrote: >> I think what really won my heart, and did so quite quickly, is that tmux has >> a >> status bar configured by default. I'm pretty sure you can do that with >> screen, >> too, but I've never b

Re: [gentoo-user] tmux vs. screen

2010-11-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:25 on Friday 19 November 2010, Florian CROUZAT did opine thusly: > On 18 nov. 2010, at 20:52, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Stroller > > > > wrote: > >> I think what really won my heart, and did so quite quickly, is that tmux > >> ha

Re: [gentoo-user] tmux vs. screen

2010-11-18 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 00:25 on Friday 19 November 2010, Florian CROUZAT did opine thusly: On 18 nov. 2010, at 20:52, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Stroller wrote: I think what really won my heart, and did so quite quic

Re: [gentoo-user] tmux vs. screen

2010-11-19 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
These days tmux seems somewhat more actively developed, this might be a subjective appreciation, though. But at least the tmux mailing list seems more active. I am subscribed to both of them. The feature that made me switch from screen to tmux back in the days was vertical splitting, which just wo