If you want to go IDE qua IDE, with the shell linking everything up, tmux is much easier to control from the command line than screen is. The multiple sessions

If you want to go IDE qua IDE, with the shell linking everything up, tmux is much easier to control from the command line than screen is. The multiple sessions business is actually quite cool with a utility like tmuxinator; you can switch to and from them and retain clipboard status, etc. The way the window splitting works reminds me a lot of xmonad (which I also run) and I'm not sure yet which mode of use I like better. Screen doesn't handle multiple clients with different window sizes especially gracefully; because I run tmux and xmonad I tend to have weird shaped windows, which behave exactly as you might hope with multiple clients. I'm not sold sold on tmux over screen, but I do like what I'm seeing.