Re: [gentoo-user] screen just saved my day!

[Joost Roeleveld]

On Thursday 07 April 2011 18:39:12 Pandu Poluan wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:31, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 07 April 2011 05:44:17 Pandu Poluan wrote:
> > > Someone really should mention 'screen' in the handbook; that
> > > venerable
> > > tool just saved my day :)
> > >
> > > I was in the midst of 'emerge --update --newuse world' over SSH when
> > > my office had a 'temporary power failure'. Luckily, I had started a
> > > 'screen' session. When the power is restored 5 minutes later, I just
> > > re-attach the screen session, and all's well :)
> > >
> > > Rgds,
> >
> > Have a look here, under Section 3 - Leaving your Terminal:
> >
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsntricks.xml
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Mick
>
> Gosh, now I feel stupid and illiterate ;_;

Don't worry about that :)
I actually think that it's not that easy to find if a "new" Gentoo user can't 
see it straight away...

Just out of curiousity, where did you look? Maybe a link from where you looked 
to that page might be of use to make the documentation better?

Also, the problem with most documented features is, if someone isn't aware of 
a certain feature, that person might not even look for it and will continue 
doing things in a sub-optimal method.

--
Joost