Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

[Iustin Pop <iusty@k1024.org>]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:59:00PM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:17:02PM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:37:41PM +0100, Karl Ferdinand Ebert wrote:
> > > - 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;
> >
> > I do not really see anything here that screen can't do...
> 
> GNU screen can't move one window from one session to another or attach
> one window to two session.

Maybe not, but since I can view a window with two clients anyway, what
advantage does "attaching one window to two sessions" bring? What is the
intended use-case?

regards,
iustin