On 03/08/12 08:15, Mark Wilden wrote:
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Tim Chase<[email protected]> wrote:
One of the biggest advantages of screen is that you can detach from it and
the re-attach from another machine.
Just to be crystal clear - that's why you would use screen, right?
There are no benefits if you're working locally. Is that correct?
Depending on your local work environment, a couple other small
benefits include:
- ability to copy & paste between windows (if you're running a
GUI-less box locally such as a router or a low end box like I
have, being able to copy/paste between terminals is nice
- the ability to have a bell/visbell notification of
activity/silence in another window so you can have your IM window
notify you when there's action, or your compile window notify you
when it's stopped
- as Ben mentioned, it makes a nice "this terminal is my
contextual workspace", so I usually run with one screen session
for each conceptual project I've got open at the time
However it's true that the attach/detach functionality is the
biggest selling-point and if you don't remote into your box, it
greatly diminishes the need for screen/tmux.
Yes, I'm actually pretty familiar with this whole "windows" concept. :)
So it's like "windows"...in a terminal ;-)
Which is a bigger statement than it might sound like, as there
are accessibility advantages to the terminal (everything is text,
so a screen reader like speakup/yasr can access everything) and
resource advantages (running X *really* drags my old P2 with 32Mb
of RAM to its knees, but it chugs right along with screen). The
perfect solution for everybody? Certainly not. A great solution
for particular use-cases? Absolutely :)
-tim
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