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I've been using GNU screen for years and am happy with it. A brief bit of Googling suggests to me that the main advantages of tmux over screen are that its cod

by dsrguru 14y ago

I've been using GNU screen for years and am happy with it. A brief bit of Googling suggests to me that the main advantages of tmux over screen are that its code is designed better and that it's actively maintained and, therefore, less buggy. It also seems like its configuration is more logical. As someone who has already configured screen to my liking and who hasn't run into noticeable bugs, I don't have any real reason to make the switch if those are the only advantages. Are there others? (e.g. better features, etc.)

irahul 14y ago
> Are there others? (e.g. better features, etc.) Apart from active development and easier configuration, vertical splits(screen has it for some time now).
petepete 14y ago
For me, tmuxinator[1] is a huge advantage. I can easily define environments suited to various tasks and projects, launch them easily and lose none of tmux's power in the process. For example, my 'work' setup is very IDE-like; when it starts it mounts my dev VM (nfs), starts vim, opens windows for logs, database client, SSH to the VM, source control (tig and git). [1] https://github.com/aziz/tmuxinator https://github.com/aziz/tmuxinator