On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Brian Kroth <bpkr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Carsten Mattner <carstenmatt...@gmail.com> 2012-07-21 14:52: > >> I've been using screen for many years and it has been almost >> 4 years since the last official release. >> >> Are there any plans for a new release? >> Or should I just use screen from the master branch to get >> a recent version? > > > I completely agree with the sentiment. I think it's (perhaps artificially) > holding up inclusion in the major linux distros of a modern screen, which > really has some nice new features to offer.
This sounds kind of similar to users preferring zsh over bash just because Apple bundles an ancient (differently licensed?) bash with OSX. I did try tmux but it just doesn't work as well as screen for me. It seems slower when listing many many lines of text and I also miss the key chaining behavior of screen. The difference in key chaining is a design choice as far as I was told and you have to redefine all the quick key chains you use explicitly. > Debian's experimental branch at least has a git based package now, adapted > from a recent fedora package, which, from a quick glance, is the only major > distro out there to have one. Seen that, but don't use Debian. What's holding up a release? FWIW I haven't reported this to Fedora's bug tracker but their copy of screen has a bug somewhere which segfaults if you have "maxwin 9" or "maxwin 4" in .screenrc. That doesn't happen on any other distro. What can we do to get a stable release out there? _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
