On 12May2019 17:19, boB Stepp <robertvst...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 1:05 PM David L Neil
<pytu...@danceswithmice.info> wrote:
I'm using Gnome Terminal under Fedora (Linux). This allows multiple
terminals in tabs (and thus Ctrl-Tab rapid-switching). However, it
irritates me that whilst I can set "profiles" for particular purposes;
there does not seem to be a way to save a 'session'. Thus each time
Terminal re-starts, I have to re-build each terminal, manually.
(suggestions of other similar tools would be most welcome)
I may be mistaken, but I think that a terminal multiplexer like tmux
(https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki) is capable of session management.
I have no personal use of tmux, but have been intrigued enough about
others referring to it that eventually I will get around to seriously
checking it out.
Tmux is great, but I mostly use it for persistent sessions. It has
facilities for running multiple panes in one terminal, which could be
useful for remote sessions; locally I just use multiple panes in my
terminal emulator, and in fact just multiple local panes connected to
remote sessions anyway.
I do use tmux panes in email though: I invoke mutt in a tmux session and
replies start in a subpane, with mutt's index view in the upper
(smaller) pane. But otherwise it is almost all persistent (and named)
sessions.
Now, I am spoilt: on a Mac I have access to iTerm3, which does: multiple
tabs _and multiple panes and subpanes. My usual coding layout is a
terminal in the left half of the screen running vim (with, usually, two
_vim_ windows in it, vertically split). Often, that window gets a
horizontal split, with a short and wide terminal pane below the editors,
where I have a shell. The right hand half is antoher terminal, usually
split intovarious panes, often 2 more evenly split. FOr shells and
Python interpreters.
But a really good terminal emulator is an outstanding tool. And iTerm3
seems to outshine everything else (Mac only alas - I'd like to find a
food X11 equivalent - everything I've tried is deficient). Tabs and
multiple panes is hugely flexible. It also has a toggle keystroke to
expand a particular pane to the full window for when you want lots of
text (diffs, commiting, etc).
So unlike Alan, since it is all one Mac app (iTerm3), there's no Alt-TAB
to switch apps, and since it does focus-follows-mouse cut/paste is very
fast (iTerm3 has a mode like most X11 apps: select implicitly copies, so
no Cmd-C copy keystroke for me either).
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
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