Subj : Re: Screen or tmux?
To   : Ksource
From : Boraxman
Date : Mon May 17 2021 21:37:00

-=> Ksource wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

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 Ks>   Re: Re: Screen or tmux?
 Ks>   By: poindexter FORTRAN to Gamgee
 Ks> on Fri Apr 30 2021 06:59 am

 > -=> Gamgee wrote to All <=-
 >
 >  Ga> For you Linux users... what's your pick - screen or tmux, and why?
 >
 > Tmux - it just makes more sense to me. I'm a little late to the game,
 > playing more with screen multiplexers now. Where I used to open a couple of
 > Putty sessions, I can now do everything with one session and Tmux.

 Ks> Honestly I think you're in a good position. I use screen because I've
 Ks> been around for a while and screen was the first really decent terminal
 Ks> multiplexer. The codebase for GNU Screen is pretty gnarly and there's
 Ks> not a lot of substantial development on it to speak of. tmux has a
 Ks> cleaner (and smaller/simpler) codebase and attracts more development.

 Ks> I tried tmux once and it was fine. I spent all my time configuration it
 Ks> to work like screen and thought "well, this is pointless, I'll just use
 Ks> screen". I think if I were coming into it new and didn't have any
 Ks> habits and muscle-memory built up, I would start with tmux, though.

 Ks> I'll use screen until I need something screen can't do, and then I'll
 Ks> switch to tmux, I think.

I've started trying Tmux in place of Screen, and I like it, but for the most
part, screen has all the functionality I need anyway, and the zmodem support
that screen has is actually more useful than you think.

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