Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:14:55 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: tmux(1) in base Message-ID: <20090922091455.208864fktn4do1c8@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <1253540785.2134.85.camel@strangepork.london.mintel.ad> References: <20090921112657.GW95398@hoeg.nl> <20090921112917.GA89971@freebsd.org> <20090921113556.GX95398@hoeg.nl> <1253537983.1757.5.camel@localhost> <1253540785.2134.85.camel@strangepork.london.mintel.ad>
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Quoting Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> (from Mon, 21 Sep 2009
14:46:25 +0100):
> On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 08:59 -0400, Coleman Kane wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 13:35 +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
>> > * Roman Divacky <rdivacky@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> > > can tmux be configured to be 100% compatible with screen? if so
>> > > are we going to ship with such a config on default?
>> >
>> > Well, we could ship a screen-like config in /usr/share/examples, but in
>> > my opinion we shouldn't enable this by default. It only makes it more
>> > confusing when people switch to different operating systems that don't
>> > use this config. I do think tmux's use of ^B instead of ^A by default is
>> > a bit awkward...
>> >
>>
>> Funny. I always considered (and still consider, but live with it)
>> screen's use of ^A to be quite awkward and annoying, myself, since it
>> conflicts with using ^A for jump-to-start-of-line.
>>
>
> You can always change it. When I started at $JOB, my mentor hated that I
> used screen, because he used ^A a lot to jump to start of line. I now
> use ^F, which is used a lot less :)
>
> ``screen -e ^ff'' does the trick.
In /usr/local/etc/screenrc you can do something similar without the
need to always enter it manually:
---snip---
# change escape char and no startup message
startup_message off
escape ^Ff
defescape ^Ff
---snip---
I also have:
---snip---
# fancy bottom lines
caption always "%{= kw}%?%-Lw%?%{+b kw}%n*%t%f %?(%u)%?%{= kw}%?%+Lw%?"
hardstatus alwayslastline "%{+b kr}[ $USER($LOGNAME)@%H ] %{ky} Load:
%l %-=%{kb} %c %d.%m."
---snip---
To get back on-topic to the initial stuff: as a user of screen and a
person which doesn't care if it is screen or tmux... I would prefer to
not have anything like this in the base. It is not hard to install it
on a machine, and if tmux there are frequent releases of tmux, it will
always be outdated in FreeBSD and as such I would prefer to get it
from ports.
Bye,
Alexander.
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