screen

[prog]

My new best friend is screen -D -R. Why did it take me six years of laptop use to discover it?

Comments

[jtroutman.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip. I am starting to use it now. I knew daerr used it and loved it.

I had tried screen years ago (early 90s), back when I used actual dumb terminals connected to unix systems on a regular basis. I found it dififcult and incomprensible for some reason, so I stopped using it.

[prog.livejournal.com]

It is pretty incomprehensible. I just use the one command ever, and make the config change to .screenrc that Andy suggests.