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Never got into tmux, still using screen after all these years. Is tmux still claimed to be superior?

• pengaru 3y ago
  screen is gpl, tmux isn't
  • sgt 3y ago
    As an end-user though, it doesn't usually matter.
    • pengaru 3y ago
      As an end-user, what software you choose to use is a form of advocacy for that software and its license. So it does matter, but you can choose to not care.
  • remram 3y ago
    Note for others: tmux is under the ISC license, a permissive non-copyleft opensource license.
• tambourine_man 3y ago
  Does screen offer vertical splitting now? That was the killer feature for me a decade ago. And the more Vimlike keybindings.
  • teddyh 3y ago
    > Does screen offer vertical splitting now? Yes, for nine years now; bound to “Ctrl-a |” by default: <https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.html#Split https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.html#Split>
    • tambourine_man 3y ago
      Nice, thanks. I knew there was a patch, didn’t know it was on shipping on standard distros
      • yonrg 3y ago
        In my memory, the patch was not in upstream and even more far away from distro packages at the time tmux came alive. I also went with tmux for vertical split (left-right panes)
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