Hearty +1 for tmux. Also allows you to examine scrollback in a more sane manner as well as searching it.
Also use GNU Screen in some cases. While I don't like it as much as tmux, certain distros don't have tmux in the official repos. On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 08:03 -0700, Matt Simmons wrote: > More often than not, my typical terminal interface looks like this: > > http://i.imgur.com/XndR2tp.png > > I have at least one tmux window running, with several panes. In the > example screenshot, I have vi running on the left side, on the right > side top, I'm editing a puppet file, and on the bottom right, I'm > running commands relevant to the two editing windows. > > Tmux has really changed how I work. I like it a lot. > > --Matt > > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Derek J. Balling <dr...@megacity.org > > wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA512 > > > > > > > > On 10/29/2015 10:36 AM, Yves Dorfsman wrote: > > > For people spending a lot of time in a terminal/shell (bash, csh > > > etc...) do you work from the shell or from an editor? > > > > > > The joke goes that people using emacs live inside emacs, and I > > have > > > indeed seen developers working from a simple window and sending > > > chunk of code to a compiler/repl right from emacs, now what about > > > the shell? > > > > I had a boss who used to have his login shell set to emacs, but > > this > > is 15 years ago +/-. > > > > D > > > > > > - -- > > I prefer to use encrypted mail. My public key fingerprint is FD6A > > 6990 > > F035 DE9E 3713 B4F1 661B 3AD6 D82A BBD0. You can download it at > > http://www.megacity.org/gpg_dballing.txt > > > > Learn how to encrypt your email with the E-Mail Self Defense Guide: > > https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/ > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0 > > Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org > > > > iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJWMjFNAAoJEGYbOtbYKrvQpUkP/2aqeXL/pSy95heqaYyhOdIL > > s550Fs/35odTsRVDSI+lNrgJMDcTLDghuyRIKjEVZ9wR/qR+RWYfok98dNIFOAf9 > > qhzVWhB5MbRlLrS2giVKJXtIy8zrxOCruicVIGjF15nTV2LdnreB4hzz4pQ22c8U > > xR38+TWx5UVigQipVmDlZTl/7WMsAwrMnLh7oSuYWPrl2FZKXmYAGYdkhb0UDXgo > > DmGu4asWLPZrYkjW9IEAwLXQQBHVCl3BTXm5HZobgucniWJbfsZgrg16MN1tCf7u > > cMw6Nkyeomn0/X+UYhHWAQkbrVEA61PApmJrsVvX6tIJZb+zgfBB61varGKrxqZ+ > > SuweQ+UgGeBnWJbSWAoV1CQF6DP/paqkptNa+o3f5DXVyLi4oAlIkm1hurE1ISeA > > lCYPSo7A7pGibrE7iYH9wwryncox59jRQ6jF2ZP/C2ZHaWdel61QkE5Gf3Wn9CwC > > Re62fmNwOI4I39+kgAtAbV3vV8L069zA+/DzL4qwzi4rdcJlQTINGAyNpioKjKRy > > TOEv2AvfXv3hXh9J+Swebj2G8CqOLcK7BSgrES/GtmDCb/3YnORLrz7Db5ggKmW1 > > aVr2soG6Tt2uuXOdOt+BA3iqqWTwXMiD8r4B2DYO5oW0utCRGg7uck4XOFZuW3en > > UanCphhq2XPLYTQfFizn > > =vA2Q > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > > Tech mailing list > > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > > This list provided by the League of Professional System > > Administrators > > http://lopsa.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System > Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
