Stephen Powell:
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:00:56 -0400 (EDT), Jochen Spieker wrote:
>
>> termcapinfo xterm* 'is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;4;6l'
>
> That's interesting. I've never encountered this, as I don't use the
> "screen" package. If I need multiple terminal sessions, I just launch multiple
> PuTTY sessions. I guess I don't see the need for screen.
The best thing about screen isn't the multiplexing part, but that you
are able to start a program, disconnect the terminal while keeping the
program running and reattach later. Besides tmux I don't know of a
usable alternative to do that.
> But in any case,
> I don't understand the design of screen. Why does it need an external
> definition of terminal type characteristics in a configuration file?
> Why doesn't it rely on the terminfo information stored in ncurses?
I will not pretend to know anything about these things. I only
copy-pasted this line from the web. :)
J.
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