On 09/05/13 02:57, David Rock wrote:
* Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> [2013-05-08 22:13]:
On 08/05/13 00:26, Prasad, Ramit wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
* a decent console app that supports multiple tabs;
Any reason to prefer tabs to virtual terminals (i.e. screen)?
Yes. I can see tabs, and click them with a mouse, they can have a
meaningful title, and I can use spacial memory to associate them with
tasks. "Tests = second last tab" is more natural for me to remember
than "Tests = virtual terminal 7", and clicking with the mouse is much
faster for me than remembering, and typing, "Ctrl-A 7".
Well, not to start a flame war, but that is all subjective.
Did I say otherwise? I was very careful to say "more natural FOR ME, faster FOR
ME".
So it's really more about personal taste than anything. If you _like_
what you are using, that's fine. I wouldn't like that setup.
I'm sure that many people wouldn't.
On the other hand, I work with, and watch, a lot of techies who live in screen.
They swear that they're more efficient, but watching them hunt for the right
virtual terminal doesn't look very efficient to me. I often see them flip
through three or four different VTs until they reach the one they were looking
for. It is especially amusing when they end up shutting down the wrong server
because they've gone to the wrong vt and haven't realised it.
--
Steven
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