The problem with this, and likely why the post was made in the first place, is screen and many other solutions are basically just a terminal emulator on your ex

The problem with this, and likely why the post was made in the first place, is screen and many other solutions are basically just a terminal emulator on your existing terminal emulator and may cause problems. screen for instance seems to make snippets I use to resize serial terminals nonfunctional, likely because it does not implement things the same as xterm-like terminals.