Zellij – A Terminal Workspace and Multiplexer

Post by stjohnswarts » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 5:14 AM UTC

kleiba wrote: post #79

eschneider wrote: post #37

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I do most of my work (embedded development) ssh'd into a few linux boxen at the office which can reach my test devices and various other bits and bobs. I'm pretty happy running full text mode editing in emacs (-nw, ftw :) and a few other shells for tasks I haven't incorporated into emacs yet. Speed is nice, even over a vpn, which running anything graphical is somewhat grim. Still, the killer feature with screen multi…

emacs -nw and screen is all you need.

Post by jcul » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 6:58 AM UTC

uses wrote: post #143

I've been using tmux for quite a while, though at a fairly casual level. The first thing I noticed is that this interface is discoverable - it shows me what I can do, which is incredible and makes me want to use it. The main reason I've been a casual tmux user and not an advanced one despite using it for years, is because every time I want to try something new I have to google if it's possible. The second thing I not…

Post by lewispollard » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 7:51 AM UTC

hinkley wrote: post #222

Related question: What’s the state of the art for managing the running of, and the output from, multiple CLI commands at once? Say I have a task D that requires a task A, B, and C, but for which A and B and independent. The naive solution (let the output interlace and just watch the exit codes) creates a substantial comprehension problem for my coworkers, so I don’t usually do it. But over and over again I find mysel…

Post by nicoty » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 8:19 AM UTC

gregwebs wrote: post #208

The discoverability of shortcuts in zellij is great! Besides this and tmux you can also try * mtm: https://github.com/deadpixi/mtm * dvtm: https://linuxconfig.org/an-introduction-to-terminal-multiple... * abduco None of these have ever stuck with me because I don't like how they alter the ability to scroll (although I haven't tried the newer tmux mouse/scrolling capabilities). To maintain a session I prefer to use Et…

Post by dividedbyzero » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 10:50 AM UTC

ahepp wrote: post #68

dhagz wrote: post #43

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If you're already spending a lot of time in the browser looking at stuff (AWS Console, Stack Overflow, etc), I can see the convenience of just switching tabs to your terminal rather than pulling up a window. So far I've solved that problem with keyboard shortcuts or other macros to pull up a terminal when I need it.

Conceptually, I don't think the solution to "switching windows is too hard" ought to be "make the terminal part of the browser". Although it does seem like perhaps the least immediately painful way to solve the problem. Using Lynx in the terminal might be another way to do it.