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Re: Lend wings to Rails development with Hermes (A shell development framework)

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Post by FuzzyDunlop » Wed, Nov 07, 2012, 5:48 PM UTC

klochner wrote: post #2

Honest question - why would you use Tmux for local sessions? I always thought the advantage of programs like Screen and TMux were that you could persist remote sessions over bad connections, or from different terminals (e.g., going home from the office and keeping the session alive). For purely local sessions, I don't see an advantage over iterm + vim. That also seems to be the conclusion on StackOverflow [0]: [0] ht…

Personally, I find working within tmux more productive than a vanilla terminal, even if I never touch the remote functionality.

This was probably due to being used to using terminator on xubuntu, which tmux has felt similar to for me, and because I prefer having something I can configure/script and commit to a repo. I think it's a bit like preferring awesomewm or xmonad over, say, Gnome or KDE.

In addition to that, this sort of thing is just nice, I think.

Re: Lend wings to Rails development with Hermes (A shell development framework)

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Post by alinajaf » Wed, Nov 07, 2012, 5:49 PM UTC

claudioortolina wrote: post #4

klochner wrote: post #2

Honest question - why would you use Tmux for local sessions? I always thought the advantage of programs like Screen and TMux were that you could persist remote sessions over bad connections, or from different terminals (e.g., going home from the office and keeping the session alive). For purely local sessions, I don't see an advantage over iterm + vim. That also seems to be the conclusion on StackOverflow [0]: [0] ht…

Hi, Claudio (one of the developers) here. The motivation is that you can interact with the content of the panes both with shortcuts and programmatically, as an example I can link you this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=J... The other advantage is that if for any reason iTerm crashes or is closed by mistake, you can resume your session.

Great work Claudio! Will definitely give this a try soon.

-Ali

Re: Lend wings to Rails development with Hermes (A shell development framework)

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Post by cmoylan » Wed, Nov 07, 2012, 6:02 PM UTC

klochner wrote: post #2

Honest question - why would you use Tmux for local sessions? I always thought the advantage of programs like Screen and TMux were that you could persist remote sessions over bad connections, or from different terminals (e.g., going home from the office and keeping the session alive). For purely local sessions, I don't see an advantage over iterm + vim. That also seems to be the conclusion on StackOverflow [0]: [0] ht…

I accidentally Ctrl + W my terminal window quite a bit. With tmux my session is persisted and I can get back to it easily.

Re: Lend wings to Rails development with Hermes (A shell development framework)

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Post by jlgreco » Wed, Nov 07, 2012, 6:14 PM UTC

klochner wrote: post #2

Honest question - why would you use Tmux for local sessions? I always thought the advantage of programs like Screen and TMux were that you could persist remote sessions over bad connections, or from different terminals (e.g., going home from the office and keeping the session alive). For purely local sessions, I don't see an advantage over iterm + vim. That also seems to be the conclusion on StackOverflow [0]: [0] ht…

I often work a heavy mixture of locally and remotely, so every time I start a new unit of work (very loose definition) I run a script I threw together that creates a new directory tree to work in, perhaps checks some things out, and creates a new named tmux session for that work. I then use an alias for `tmux attach-session -t` with zsh autocompletion for tmux to rapidly pick up where I left off on any number of things I was previously working on.

Since tmux works locally as well as remotely, I find this to be a great organizational trick.