On 07/01/2014 06:18 AM, Dimitris Zervas wrote: > > After a year or so in the list, I think each and every one is using tmux or > screen (I think more tmux, but do not start a war please, that's not the > subject). > Why is that? For the tabs? > Why not use tabbed? or DWM's mono-view (how is it called when you see only 1 > window?)? >
Side question: are you intentionally requesting read receipts in emails to a mailing list? To your question: I mostly use it to store sessions with different environments, very useful for doing a lot of cross-compiling (which seems to take up most of my time lately). Tip: if you do that, also change PS1 so you can remember which environment you're in. Also, the ability to detach and reattach a tty is very nice, particularly on a remote server. You can even run daemons verbosely in a tty and watch them kvetch in realtime, which is occasionally useful. Lemma: does anybody know of a good environment-managing program[0]? Something like what shells do with pushd and popd, but with environment variables? (And hopefully offering more random access than just push and pop.) I'd like to be able to save a given environment with a handle and return to it later by calling that handle; maybe "saveenv foo" and "loadenv foo" like some firmware systems do. I know on bash "set > file" and "source file" do that with shell variables (but not the full environment). Bonus points for making the saved environment available system-wide if requested (without saving something in every ~/.saveenv/), also for completely nuking the environment. It Doesn't Sound Too Hard (tm), so maybe I should make one if it doesn't exist. (It would at least be useful for its creator in that case, which is a necessary but not sufficient condition for software to suck less.) [0] http://tools.suckless.org/sbase contains env, which is of course a "good environment managing program", but not what I'm talking about. Weldon
