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GNU Screen: an introduction and beginner's tutorial

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Re: GNU Screen: an introduction and beginner's tutorial

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Post by vidarh »

JoachimSchipper wrote: post #29
Sukotto wrote: post #23

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Screen has a very large chunk of the potential market share for this sort of utility app. Tmux is going to have to be 10 times better to get people to switch. ("Screen" also has a name that's easy to remember, and to spell.) Is tmux 10 times better than screen? Cause that's what it's going to take to get people to switch at this point.

Not 10 times, no. On the other hand, tmux is improving quickly; if not every day, at least every week. screen, on the other hand, seems pretty stagnant.

That's because screen does what most people who use it want. I haven't used "new" functionality in newer versions of screen since I first started using it years and years ago.

Re: GNU Screen: an introduction and beginner's tutorial

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Post by Psyonic »

dzlobin wrote: post #36
Psyonic wrote: post #34

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I've done it a few times with just step 1. I'm not a screen expert, but for whatever reason we didn't need 2 and 3

I'll give it a shot thanks! edit; thanks it works!

I'm glad to hear it worked out. It's been quite helpful the few times I've needed it

Re: GNU Screen: an introduction and beginner's tutorial

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Post by graywh »

graywh wrote: post #18
indigoviolet wrote: post #2

Stop using Screen. Switch to Tmux ( http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ ). Screen is voodoo. Tmux isn't. EDIT: Compare my tmux.conf ( http://pastebin.com/m2394d7a2 ) and my screenrc ( http://pastebin.com/d7bb649a5 ). It was much easier for me to set up tmux the way I wanted from reading the manpage, than it was to configure screen. My screenrc is a hotchpotch of cut-and-paste from lots of different sources, but I never real…

Tmux uses some non-standard escape sequences, e.g. ctrl- and ctrl-shift- arrow keys. In version 1.0 it's impossible to distinguish between ctrl-left and ctrl-shift-left.

Turns out there's a window option "xterm-keys" that makes things better.

Re: GNU Screen: an introduction and beginner's tutorial

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Post by Diakronik »

guns wrote: post #19
idoh wrote: post #10

While we are talking about screen - I'd really like to be able to highlight text in VIM (using the visual mode) and then be able to paste that into another screen. Does anyone know how to do this?

ScreenShell. It leverages screen to create a viable REPL-buffer for vim, for any language that has an interactive interpreter. http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2711 Here's an article describing how to use it with lisp: http://www.ktaylor.name/2009/11/vim-screen-lisp-programming-... And finally, some key mappings to bind to sending the current paragraph or selection to the interpreter, from any mode. ht…

Found this about a week ago and am loving it. Almost all of my time is spent in Python or LaTeX, and having either ipython or bash open in a small window just a keystroke away is brilliant!
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