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