* Prasad, Ramit <ramit.pra...@jpmorgan.com> [2013-05-09 04:01]: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > 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. > > > > ctrl+a, <double quote> > > will list all screen titles and let you navigate using arrow keys or > typing in the number. Of course, that assumes you correctly title > your virtual terminal sessions. > > I was mostly curious because they seem roughly equivalent and mostly > dependant on the terminal I am using. I was wondering if maybe there > was a trick or two that I was missing.
I'll defend Steven on this one. Yes, that works, but it's far from efficient. What I use in my .screenrc is: hardstatus alwayslastline "%w" Which effectively puts titled tabs on the last row of the screen. Admittedly, if you have a lot of sessions open, you are limited by space a bit doing this, in which case the ctrl+a " may be necessary, but you have bigger issues if you have that many open at one time. :-) > What I like about screen is the way sessions stay open when > disconnected, but I find tabbed terminals easier to scroll for > history. If there is a tabbed terminal that will allow split screens > then all the neat features I know about in screen would > exist...although I rarely use that feature at the moment. Yes, the disconnect/reconnect is nice (I use it a lot). It's not exactly relevant to merits of console interfaces vs GUI, though. That's more of a "this is a cool baked-in capability for working with lousy network connections", which you can also do with things like VNC for a remote GUI. -- David Rock da...@graniteweb.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
