On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:22:37 +0530, Kingsly John wrote:
+++ Girish Venkatachalam [2012-11-20 08:55:17]:
tmux is a great program.
When reviewing software it helps to be grounded. Leave the superlatives
to a certain fruit company that makes "magical" products.
The developer was directly invited to become an OpenBSD dev by Theo.
He is no ordinary chap. The innovations done by him are simply
dumbfounding.
Just because someone has done great things doesn't mean everything he
does is awesome/should be praised sky high.
(You've not even mentioned this "no ordinary chap"'s name.)
tmux is terminal multiplexor which means you can run multiple shell
programs in the foreground you can split a window into vertical and
horizontal panes.
GNU Screen does all that too and has been around since 1987. (25 years!)
So tmux is just a rehash/clone of a 25 year old program and probably an
even older concept.
This is quite sexy. For a long time I did not know it.
Ignorance isn't a feature/doesn't make a product better.
The biggest use of this great idea originally envisaged by the author
of screen(1), a great way to do the same thing albeit in a somewhat
less capable way than tmux.
This is something that is absolutely baseless and I have been hearing
from every single person that has "discovered" tmux.
As someone who has been using "GNU Screen" since my initial foray into
Linux (~15 years now), I have yet to find a single way that tmux is
"more capable".
