On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:49:30PM +0000, Tyler Smith wrote: > > Second, and more to the (OT) point, what does screen do better than > multiple xterms, or shell-mode in Emacs? I'm pretty mouseless most of > the time, emacs and xterm being my primary tools, but I keep seeing > reference to this screen thing. Just curious... I'm going to have to > take a look at Stump now too, since Fluxbox does still have me mousing > around for a few things, mostly arranging my multiple xterms. > What I really like about screen is that it makes having multiple things going on via a remote connection very easily. I use keychain to manage loading my ssh and gpg keys into memory. So, if I log in multiple times, only the last session gets the benefit, since each log in starts by clearing the keys that are there from memory.
Also, the copy/paste functionality is very nice and mouseless. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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