Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-14 Thread Matthew Walker
On Thu, October 14, 2010 9:26 am, Matthew Walker wrote: > I've been thinking about it, and I think it may go back to how my prompt > itself is set > up. Need to research. But I think my systems' bash profile only sends that > title if it > detects what it deems to be a 'compatible' terminal type.

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-14 Thread Matthew Walker
On Thu, October 14, 2010 9:24 am, Brett Rasmussen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Matthew Walker wrote: > >> Looking into this, but maybe someone can point the the right direction for >> my only major >> qualm about using multiple tabs inside a screen. How do I get the screen >> tab's na

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-14 Thread Brett Rasmussen
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Matthew Walker wrote: > Looking into this, but maybe someone can point the the right direction for > my only major > qualm about using multiple tabs inside a screen. How do I get the screen > tab's name to > match the 'title' set by my prompt? The one that would n

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-13 Thread Matthew Walker
On Wed, October 13, 2010 9:55 am, Derek Carter wrote: > Before you give up on screen, try Byobu https://launchpad.net/byobu > > It's a great wrapper for the screen system. Does all the fancy > hardstatus lines etc for you. Looking into this, but maybe someone can point the the right direction for

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-13 Thread Derek Carter
On 10/8/10 9:22 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 10/08/2010 03:35 PM, Ryan Simpkins wrote: >> What I do is create a master screen session with ctrl-f as escape key, with >> no >> hardstaus line. > > I recently moved from screen to tmux. Not really sure if tmux is > better, but tmux does let you div

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-12 Thread Michael Torrie
On 10/12/2010 12:28 PM, Andrew McNabb wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 09:52:51PM -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: >> >> http://www.torriefamily.org/~torriem/wiki/computer_stuff:shareterm > > Thanks for posting this link. By the way, I had never heard of socat > before. As far as I can tell with a q

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-12 Thread Michael Torrie
On 10/12/2010 03:29 PM, Corey Edwards wrote: > The reason I first used socat was that it has the ability to pipe > to/from unix sockets. AFAIK netcat doesn't do that. And indeed the first attempt I tried with tmux was using socat to redirect the unix socket itself that tmux clients and servers use

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-12 Thread Corey Edwards
On 10/12/2010 12:28 PM, Andrew McNabb wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 09:52:51PM -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: >> >> http://www.torriefamily.org/~torriem/wiki/computer_stuff:shareterm > > Thanks for posting this link. By the way, I had never heard of socat > before. As far as I can tell with a q

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-12 Thread Andrew McNabb
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 09:52:51PM -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > > http://www.torriefamily.org/~torriem/wiki/computer_stuff:shareterm Thanks for posting this link. By the way, I had never heard of socat before. As far as I can tell with a quick skim of the man page, it looks like it's an alter

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-12 Thread Brett Rasmussen
Michael, Way to go! I've been thinking about how I might be able to use tmux to do shared sessions without shared credentials. I need to have a look at your stuff. Very cool. - Brett /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fea

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-11 Thread Michael Torrie
On 10/11/2010 11:17 AM, Brett Rasmussen wrote: > I don't know if you can do this one in screen or not, but tmux's > client-server model allows for multiple clients to be attached to the *same* > session. So, for example, I can be working from home and on a skype call > with another developer, each

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-11 Thread Jeff Schroeder
Brett: > I don't know if you can do this one in screen or not, but tmux's > client-server model allows for multiple clients to be attached to the > *same* session. Yes, screen does this with the -x option. Very cool stuff. Jeff /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: h

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-11 Thread Brett Rasmussen
+1 for tmux. I've never used screen, but from what I read, tmux's client-server model is more straightforward than screen's approach, plus it has emacs and vi modes for the scrollback buffer. I'm a vi boy, and I quite like using my vi keys to move around, select and copy text, etc, in the scrollb

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 22:25:19 -0600 Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Alex Esplin > wrote: > > Terminator is quite configurable, and has lots of things to tweak > > and tinker with, which was another plus for me, too. > > What does Terminator give you that screen doesn't?

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-10 Thread Alex Esplin
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 22:25, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Alex Esplin wrote: >> Terminator is quite configurable, and has lots of things to tweak and >> tinker with, which was another plus for me, too. > > What does Terminator give you that screen doesn't? This has

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 16:59:56 -0600 Alex Esplin wrote: > I use Terminator[1]. I just tried it on my laptop. Very nice. Very flexible. Screen runs nicely inside it. So I can run terminator on my laptop, ssh into a server, then set up a screen session for things I want to leave running after I log

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 09:45:13 -0600 Dave Smith wrote: > However, Terminator is an X11 application, so you can't run it in > Putty. Gnome, actually, so you have to have gnome on the system that runs it. However, it runs just fine over an SSH link. So maybe instead of Putty, you can run cygwin with

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-10 Thread edfelt
"However, Terminator is an X11 application, so you can't run it in Putty." You can with Cygwin, Xwin Server, and configuring cygwin-putty. There is usually a way. However, I would not run terminator from Putty in Windo$e. I would just use Cygwin's XWindows. Is Terminator available in the sta

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-10 Thread Dave Smith
On 10/08/2010 10:25 PM, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > What does Terminator give you that screen doesn't? > Well, I don't know how to tile my screens in screen. In Terminator, it's easy. You can split your sessions vertically (Ctrl+Shift+E), horizontally (Ctrl+Shift+O) , or any combination. Plus

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-09 Thread Eric Wald
On Fri, Oct 8, Ryan Simpkins wrote: > I've been using gnome-terminal for years. Usually with just one tab opened in > to a master screen session. It isn't uncommon to have 20+ active sessions on > various systems. The most I've had running under normal use was around 50. Impressive. I rarely have

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-09 Thread Levi Pearson
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Stuart Jansen wrote: > On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 16:58 +, edf...@gmail.com wrote: >> It has always confused me why the default bash editing mode is emacs >> while the default system text editor is always vi. > > Like many parts of Unix, vi is the default editor bec

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-09 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 16:58 +, edf...@gmail.com wrote: > It has always confused me why the default bash editing mode is emacs > while the default system text editor is always vi. Like many parts of Unix, vi is the default editor because of inspired design many years ago. Sadly, vim is no long

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-09 Thread edfelt
"Wow, you know all of the 3 individuals that use emacs? Impressive." In good fun, I have to say I guess I am the 4th emacs user then. It has always confused me why the default bash editing mode is emacs while the default system text editor is always vi. Consistency would be nice here. Anyone w

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-08 Thread Gabriel Gunderson
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Alex Esplin wrote: > Terminator is quite configurable, and has lots of things to tweak and > tinker with, which was another plus for me, too. What does Terminator give you that screen doesn't? Gabe /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe:

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-08 Thread Levi Pearson
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote: > > On 08 Oct 2010, at 17:38, Nicholas Leippe wrote: > >> You can do that with emacs, and then have all of emacs functionality >> on top of it. >> I know several people that live inside emacs very comfortably. >> > > Wow, you know all of the 3

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-08 Thread Levi Pearson
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote: > > On 08 Oct 2010, at 17:38, Nicholas Leippe wrote: > >> You can do that with emacs, and then have all of emacs functionality >> on top of it. >> I know several people that live inside emacs very comfortably. >> > > Wow, you know all of the 3

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-08 Thread Dave Smith
On Oct 8, 2010, at 4:59 PM, Alex Esplin wrote: > I use Terminator[1]. It allows for grid-based subdividing of your +1 for Terminator. I love setting up one Terminator instance with a 2x2 grid of terminals (for building, using git, and quick command line access). In another Terminator instance (o

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-08 Thread Michael Torrie
On 10/08/2010 03:35 PM, Ryan Simpkins wrote: > What I do is create a master screen session with ctrl-f as escape key, with no > hardstaus line. I recently moved from screen to tmux. Not really sure if tmux is better, but tmux does let you divide the terminal's screen anyway you want. /* PLUG: h

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-08 Thread Jonathan Duncan
On 08 Oct 2010, at 16:59, Alex Esplin wrote: > I use Terminator[1]. It allows for grid-based subdividing of your > terminal window, which I like so I can see stuff side-by-side or > top-bottom. Then, if I want I can launch screen sessions from each > sub-window. So I usually have one sub-window p

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-08 Thread Jonathan Duncan
On 08 Oct 2010, at 17:38, Nicholas Leippe wrote: > You can do that with emacs, and then have all of emacs functionality > on top of it. > I know several people that live inside emacs very comfortably. > Wow, you know all of the 3 individuals that use emacs? Impressive. ;) /* PLUG: http://plu

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-08 Thread Nicholas Leippe
You can do that with emacs, and then have all of emacs functionality on top of it. I know several people that live inside emacs very comfortably. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-08 Thread Alex Esplin
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 15:35, Ryan Simpkins wrote: > I've been wondering though, are there other terminal emulators out there worth > looking at? I chose gnome-terminal because it was there and seemed to work. > There have been occasions where it has frozen up on me. The background options > are a

What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

2010-10-08 Thread Ryan Simpkins
I've been using gnome-terminal for years. Usually with just one tab opened in to a master screen session. It isn't uncommon to have 20+ active sessions on various systems. The most I've had running under normal use was around 50. What I do is create a master screen session with ctrl-f as escape ke