[kwlug-disc] Screen vs Tmux

[Paul Nijjar]

Honestly, I think either are okay. I use screen and depend heavily
upon it, but I also depend heavily upon a bunch of hacky, custom
scripts to set screen titles: https://kwlug.org/node/687 . Without
these screen title hacks, I find screen very difficult to navigate.

I am a dinosaur and my muscle memory is very trained to the GNU Screen
keybindings, so if I was to switch the first thing I would do is remap
the keys. The second thing I would do is make sure that screen titling
works the way I want.

tmux is newer and was intended to fix deficiencies in screen. I feel
that I ought to switch over, and I think that if I was starting from
scratch I would probably start with tmux, but I am such a rudimentary
UNIX user that I have not run into screen's pain points yet. 

- Paul

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:25:45PM -0400, William Park via kwlug-disc wrote:
> Hi all,  (cross-posting from GTALUG)
> 
> I try to use WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) whenever possible, even
> though I have VMware and VirtualBox available.  One thing that WSL
> terminal lacks is "tab" that all other terminals have.  So, that calls
> for Screen and Tmux.  But, which one?  And, why?
> -- 
> William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
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