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You might want to check out tmux. I've changed my terminal to "st -c tmux" and every time I open a terminal window I get access to multiple frames, (nearly) inf

You might want to check out tmux. I've changed my terminal to "st -c tmux" and every time I open a terminal window I get access to multiple frames, (nearly) infinite scrolling, window management and more.

jolmg 8y ago
I use tmux when I'm connected on a remote computer and want to do a command that takes a long time and that I don't want to kill if I happen to cut the connection for any reason (e.g. I leave the wifi range). As to infinite scrolling and window management, I prefer to set the scrollback buffer length on my terminal (urxvt) to a ridiculously large number, and use a real window manager (i3 for me). It's kind of weird how so many applications have their own specific window manager inside them, like tmux (windows and tabs) or text editors (vim and emacs windows and tabs) or browsers (firefox and chromium tabs) or file managers (dolphin and pcmanfm tabs) or spreadsheets (sheets). i3 allows me to tile, tab, or stack any windows I want in any arrangement with a single set of keybindings (as opposed to the differing keybindings of each application). Anyway, another thing that's cool about tmux is copy mode. It's awesome to execute a command, hit a key to be able to move the cursor throughout the whole buffer, and copy some piece of the output any command you've executed there, to then paste in a new command. I found that urxvt has an extension that allows the same thing, and it uses the system clipboard! So, I can not only use what I copy for a new command, I can use it elsewhere like copying a url and pasting it on a web browser using only the keyboard. It's also useful to do searches in the output of commands I've executed. So, if run a command that produces a lot of output and I want to know if it outputted something in particular, but I don't want to rerun it to pipe to less or grep or I know that it's not going to result in the same output, I can just hit a key, type what I want to search and see if it finds it.

jolmg 8y ago

I use tmux when I'm connected on a remote computer and want to do a command that takes a long time and that I don't want to kill if I happen to cut the connection for any reason (e.g. I leave the wifi range). As to infinite scrolling and window management, I prefer to set the scrollback buffer length on my terminal (urxvt) to a ridiculously large number, and use a real window manager (i3 for me). It's kind of weird how so many applications have their own specific window manager inside them, like tmux (windows and tabs) or text editors (vim and emacs windows and tabs) or browsers (firefox and chromium tabs) or file managers (dolphin and pcmanfm tabs) or spreadsheets (sheets). i3 allows me to tile, tab, or stack any windows I want in any arrangement with a single set of keybindings (as opposed to the differing keybindings of each application). Anyway, another thing that's cool about tmux is copy mode. It's awesome to execute a command, hit a key to be able to move the cursor throughout the whole buffer, and copy some piece of the output any command you've executed there, to then paste in a new command. I found that urxvt has an extension that allows the same thing, and it uses the system clipboard! So, I can not only use what I copy for a new command, I can use it elsewhere like copying a url and pasting it on a web browser using only the keyboard. It's also useful to do searches in the output of commands I've executed. So, if run a command that produces a lot of output and I want to know if it outputted something in particular, but I don't want to rerun it to pipe to less or grep or I know that it's not going to result in the same output, I can just hit a key, type what I want to search and see if it finds it.