On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 12:45:51PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> Craig Sanders <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:26:22AM +0000, Brian May wrote:
> >> On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 19:33 Craig Sanders <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >  so xterm supports multiple tabs now?
> >> 
> >> With screen or tmux (preferred) it does :-)
> >
> > no, it doesnt. they're not the same thing, not even similar.
> >
> > i run screen inside tabbed termninals, usually over ssh with one tab per
> > remote host. one of the things i use screen for is so that i can attach
> > to my screen sessions from whatever machine i happen to be physically at
> > - including my desktop
> 
> Uh, you just nest screen sessions.
> The outer one is local, the inner ones are on the far end of SSHs.

uh, no. i run multiple and sometimes even nested screen sessions
but nested screens really don't work for me as a substitute for tabs.

> You can't "click" on them,
> but you can ^A1 or ^A' or ^A" to jump to a specific one by number or name,
> or ^A^A/^ASPC/^A^H to jump around.

i redefine the escape key to be ^K becausee ^A is just far too useful on
the bash command line to sacrifice, whereas ^K isn't used for anything
at all (at least, nothing that matters to me)


> If you're only using screen as dtach,
> you're missing most of its functionality.

that's not all i use it for, but my two main uses are detach/attach and
having multiple shells available on the one ssh session. and sometimes i
use the cut and paste abilities of screen's backscroll buffer.

craig

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craig sanders <[email protected]>
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