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0 pointsspudlyo15y ago0 comments

How so? As far as I can tell, the only benefit it has over screen is faster vertically split windows.

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getsat15y ago· 3 in thread

Vertical splitting, server/client architecture (shared process), non-crap codebase if you want to dig into it, BSD licensed instead of GPL. I also have no charset/encoding issues with tmux and it doesn't eat my scrollback.

I'm sure the latter points can be remedied by config file settings for screen, but it's nice to use software that just works once in a while.

spudlyoOP15y ago

Vertical splitting screen has. Software architecture, perceived code quality, and BSD license are not features.

I'm glad that there is competition in this space, but you tmux evangelists need to realize that there is a lot of work that needs to be done before tmux is really "an amazing improvement to screen."

sigil15y ago

> Vertical splitting screen has.

Is vertical split in mainline screen now, or do you still have to patch it?

I use both tmux and screen but prefer tmux. Here are some (non-ideological) reasons:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1945637

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anonymous24615y ago

It's not any one thing, but it's a lot of small things. When I last looked a couple of years ago, vertical split wasn't in screen mainline and so it was non-starter for me. Check out the list of tmux commands: it's a very powerful program that's continuously being enhanced.

Dunno if screen has this, but in tmux IIRC, you can have two different tmux servers running in totally different processes, and transfer a window from one server to another. That's pretty cool, imho. The graphical equivalent would be running two VNC servers, and moving an xterm window from one to the other.

Another cool thing: pipe the entire contents of a window in realtime to an arbitrary program.

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