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. -- I wear a lot of leather but would never wear fur. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
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