On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 12:45:51PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes:
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:26:22AM +0000, Brian May wrote:
On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 19:33 Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:
so xterm supports multiple tabs now?
With screen or tmux (preferred) it does :-)
no, it doesnt. they're not the same thing, not even similar.
i run screen inside tabbed termninals, usually over ssh with one tab per remote host. one of the things i use screen for is so that i can attach to my screen sessions from whatever machine i happen to be physically at - including my desktop
Uh, you just nest screen sessions. The outer one is local, the inner ones are on the far end of SSHs.
uh, no. i run multiple and sometimes even nested screen sessions but nested screens really don't work for me as a substitute for tabs.
You can't "click" on them, but you can ^A1 or ^A' or ^A" to jump to a specific one by number or name, or ^A^A/^ASPC/^A^H to jump around.
i redefine the escape key to be ^K becausee ^A is just far too useful on the bash command line to sacrifice, whereas ^K isn't used for anything at all (at least, nothing that matters to me)
If you're only using screen as dtach, you're missing most of its functionality.
that's not all i use it for, but my two main uses are detach/attach and having multiple shells available on the one ssh session. and sometimes i use the cut and paste abilities of screen's backscroll buffer. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>