Re: RFS: tmux (updated package)

[Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil@imsc.res.in>]

Hello,

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Paul Wise wrote:
> This sounds very much like 'screen', what advantages does it have over 'screen'?

Just quoting from the FAQ:
  
  * How is tmux different from GNU screen? What else does it offer?
  
  tmux offers several advantages over screen:
  
  - a clearly-defined client-server model: windows are independent
    entities which may be attached simultaneously to multiple sessions
    and viewed from multiple clients (terminals), as well as moved
    freely between sessions within the same tmux server;
  - a consistent, well-documented command interface, with the same syntax
    whether used interactively, as a key binding, or from the shell;
  - easily scriptable from the shell;
  - multiple paste buffers;
  - choice of vim or emacs key layouts;
  - an option to limit the window size;
  - a more usable status line syntax, with the ability to display the
    first line of output of a specific command;
  - a cleaner, modern, easily extended, BSD-licensed codebase.

Some of these (preferably not just the last!) should be chosen and
added to the package description.

Currently upstream considers UTF-8 support to be in need of
improvement.
  
Kapil.
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