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Yes, they only thing I ever use one for is reattaching to sessions. I think the reasoning is that the client terminal could change, so the multiplexer ‘must’ e
by kps 6y ago
Yes, they only thing I ever use one for is reattaching to sessions.
I think the reasoning is that the client terminal could change, so the multiplexer ‘must’ emulate a terminal. However, my client terminal type in fact does not ever change, and I would prefer to have it available rather than the multiplexer's half-baked emulation.
- dTal 6y agoIt emulates a terminal because there needs to be a terminal there for the program to write to when you're not attached to the session.
- kps 6y agoBy ‘emulating’ I don't mean providing a pty, I mean providing a terminal emulator in the usual sense of interpreting control sequences to maintain a screen representation. Dtach and abduco (which I only learned about from this thread) does the former only, while tmux and screen do both.