From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PJDCx-0002N6-4H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:43:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 783D3E06BA; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:43:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B27DE06BA for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:43:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyb6 with SMTP id 6so2661121eyb.40 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:43:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=BGBJibLTdDcT/K+nnTlwMzmqR43e9LG3pOEdtArOMPI=; b=slrntmM9k7mnCNOfdOSysyHwnbeyWSemCfsxoJyVEDTg/6UmHP4HAqXc7ZKOnEF4kf nk53To4se6HOF0GgN7fMHGmYRWq2gm2XH4OLG1ikbR+WV62kP20r1/rSDeRp1/ksxLTY taMyeBZM+X4GBtee6Oy2l9nN7o0l8fvqscYi4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=UBvHLL+N559eJ6AwqgN+zKkciSxH1n8CFfYwvEBhi7diykKeS36hZSiGQmMxebaBYw BmyaSu+ErAauHLxOh1xnHqX9jy/RFz8ruxO0qkJwQS//Bhhwi0Yy1nC8KV+K8UWXzOYB H30+1HsRpvke3oGQUcjh3oOVch/yWx8Af2gEU= Received: by 10.213.14.146 with SMTP id g18mr4188891eba.2.1290120232012; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:43:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-238-14.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.238.14]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w20sm844653eeh.6.2010.11.18.14.43.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:43:51 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tmux vs. screen Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:44:17 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-ck; KDE/4.5.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <20101117002517.GA18328@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201011190044.17718.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: cb413cb8-2d46-41e3-8dc0-dfe3e16740d6 X-Archives-Hash: 31148308164d402d10cfd370e8bbdc82 Apparently, though unproven, at 00:25 on Friday 19 November 2010, Florian CROUZAT did opine thusly: > On 18 nov. 2010, at 20:52, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Stroller > > > > wrote: > >> I think what really won my heart, and did so quite quickly, is that tmux > >> has a status bar configured by default. I'm pretty sure you can do that > >> with screen, too, but I've never bothered, because it seemed too much > >> effort to learn and it just seemed flashy and pointless. I realised how > >> mistaken I was within a couple of hours of using tmux. It has > >> absolutely changed the way I use terminal multiplexers, and so I spent > >> several hours the next day configuring mine and getting the colours and > >> stuff perfect. > > > > I have not used tmux but I agree completely, I hate to use screen > > without the status bar. I'm using one I copied from here or the forums > > or the gentoo wiki or someplace out there in WWW land. (Thanks to the > > person who made it, whoever you are) > > > > Add this to your .screenrc: > > caption always "%{= kw}%-w%{= BW}%n %t%{-}%+w %-= @%H - %LD %d %LM - %c" > > Also, amongst other things, >=tmux-1.3 has mouse support. > You can scroll using your mouse in copy mode and use your mouse to select > one of the splitted panes of your active window. You can also break/join > panes in and out the active window and it has awesome predefined layouts. > I'll add that tmux has a readable and even understandable man page ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ I'm sold. 4 words, that's all it took. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com