Screen is to tmux as a Ford Taurus is to a BMW
Screen is nice, sure, but tmux has a couple of tricks up its sleeve.
And if your net connection is a little shaky, tmux can save your sanity (whereas screen just hangs there)
Screen is nice, sure, but tmux has a couple of tricks up its sleeve.
And if your net connection is a little shaky, tmux can save your sanity (whereas screen just hangs there)
tmux being shell-friendly means I write one shell script for each project, and if I restart the system for some reason, I open the terminal and run tmux-foo. tmux-foo creates a session, cds to project root and create multiple windows, opens vim in one, rails s in another, logs in another, rails console, dbconsole etc etc.
If you are curious, pick a config which gives you screen like keybindings(tmux uses c-b; I swore to screen long back I would use c-a) and try it for some time. As far as user experience goes, you have everything you had in screen with some added benefits(no, it isn't bmw)
...except for serial communication. Because I connect to various hardware UART devices all day, I need serial communication. I hate minicom and most of the other serial comm programs don't have the features I need.
Since I'm already using screen as my serial communication software, I go ahead and use it for terminal multiplexing and session management as well.
(this makes sense if you use Ctrl-A as 'Home')
Just took a screenshot to show it off, easy to understand when you look at this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/191376/Screenshots/mb06.png