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Apparently, though unproven, at 00:25 on Friday 19 November 2010, Florian |
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CROUZAT did opine thusly: |
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> On 18 nov. 2010, at 20:52, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Stroller |
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> > <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> >> I think what really won my heart, and did so quite quickly, is that tmux |
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> >> has a status bar configured by default. I'm pretty sure you can do that |
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> >> with screen, too, but I've never bothered, because it seemed too much |
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> >> effort to learn and it just seemed flashy and pointless. I realised how |
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> >> mistaken I was within a couple of hours of using tmux. It has |
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> >> absolutely changed the way I use terminal multiplexers, and so I spent |
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> >> several hours the next day configuring mine and getting the colours and |
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> >> stuff perfect. |
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> > |
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> > I have not used tmux but I agree completely, I hate to use screen |
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> > without the status bar. I'm using one I copied from here or the forums |
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> > or the gentoo wiki or someplace out there in WWW land. (Thanks to the |
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> > person who made it, whoever you are) |
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> > |
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> > Add this to your .screenrc: |
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> > caption always "%{= kw}%-w%{= BW}%n %t%{-}%+w %-= @%H - %LD %d %LM - %c" |
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> Also, amongst other things, >=tmux-1.3 has mouse support. |
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> You can scroll using your mouse in copy mode and use your mouse to select |
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> one of the splitted panes of your active window. You can also break/join |
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> panes in and out the active window and it has awesome predefined layouts. |
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> I'll add that tmux has a readable and even understandable man page |
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^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ |
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I'm sold. 4 words, that's all it took. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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