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Using ‘screen’ - The Absolute Essentials

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Post by Nurdok » Fri, May 10, 2013, 7:57 AM UTC

Using ‘screen’ - The Absolute Essentials
blog.amir.rachum.com

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Post by mooism2 » Fri, May 10, 2013, 8:21 AM UTC

    screen -d -R

will reconnect to your screen session if it exists, or start a new one if it doesn't.

People not yet proficient with screen should learn tmux instead.

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Post by linbo » Fri, May 10, 2013, 8:55 AM UTC

why not tmux

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Post by jjellyy » Fri, May 10, 2013, 9:02 AM UTC

step 1 - use tmux

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Post by jmomo » Fri, May 10, 2013, 9:59 AM UTC

I would strongly recommend tmux over screen to anyone, if it is available on your platform.

Screen's development is basically dead. Tmux is under active development, and the developers are responsive and intelligent.

Tmux is sudo safe, where screen is not.

Tmux lacks screen's ability to connect to serial devices, which is used by some sysadmins and router monkeys like myself, but that's okay.

Tmux also sucks for tee-ing it's output to a log file, which screen does nicely, but this will probably be fixed some day.

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Post by whatthesmack » Fri, May 10, 2013, 2:08 PM UTC

"Essentials" being "how to install screen using apt". I wish I could downvote.

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Post by pixelbeat » Fri, May 10, 2013, 2:15 PM UTC

Here's an actual quick reference for screen:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/lkdb/screen.html

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Post by sharathms » Fri, May 10, 2013, 3:49 PM UTC

I was using screen, but figured that emacs server+client worked just fine for me. All I do now is ssh to the machine where my emacs server is running and run 'emacsclient -c' -- emacsclient works fine in the terminal, as well as a native GUI application. The only possible downside I can think of, is the lack of persistence of the buffer positions on the display, which terminal emulators like screen and tmux provide. Not a deal breaker for me.

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Post by mooism2 » Fri, May 10, 2013, 6:47 PM UTC

jmomo wrote: post #5

I would strongly recommend tmux over screen to anyone, if it is available on your platform. Screen's development is basically dead. Tmux is under active development, and the developers are responsive and intelligent. Tmux is sudo safe, where screen is not. Tmux lacks screen's ability to connect to serial devices, which is used by some sysadmins and router monkeys like myself, but that's okay. Tmux also sucks for tee-…

What do you mean by “tmux is sudo safe”?

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Post by txet » Fri, May 10, 2013, 10:58 PM UTC

Best screen reference/walkthrough I've found: http://www.bangmoney.org/presentations/screen.html