screen

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

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[taskboy3000.livejournal.com]

I like tabbed consoles, like iTerm. Screen has always bugged me, but I'm in the minority here, I think. With emacs, I get the split screen of shell buffer/code buffer and that's often what I need.

However, I know several folks that swear by screen.

I love screen and can't live without it...

[daerr.livejournal.com]

I actually went so far as to write a pair of shell scripts to let me use named screen sessions to make having multiple instances of screen on one system less painful. I use it for both permanence and console switching... with an appropriate screenrc you can even have the little list of sessions at the bottom or top of the window just like with tabs. I'd just add that '-e^@@' is necessary for me to use screen— ctrl-a as the command key is the worst thing ever. (^@ is ctrl-space.)

[dougo.livejournal.com]

I used to use screen all the time, but I haven't used it since I started using VNC. But come to think of it, screen might be better for low-bandwidth situations when VNC is kind of a pain (like at times during the hunt, although I did manage to do some Scheme programming in my home XEmacs via VNC to help out with the Da Vinci code puzzle).

Screen is *required*

[poetgeek.livejournal.com]

I use screen daily. daerr got me hooked...

[mwerble.livejournal.com]

screen -e^Rr
has been my friend since college. I have no idea how anyone deals with working remotely otherwise.

[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.