So I tried it out and it fixes my 2 pet peeves of screen.
1. The defaults are sane (altscreen is on by default, emacs keys in copy mode by default, no stupid "wuff wuff" covering up my prompt, history is 2000 lines instead screen's almost useless 100).
2. Screen sometimes interacts badly with Terminal.app on my mac. I can't run aptitude from within screen on my mac without it randomly switching to graphic charset mode. Also running emacs inside screen sometime results in the arrow keys not working.
I like it so far. I think I'll switch for a while and see how it goes...
Also vbell off. Incidentally, byobu is an excellent wrapper around screen without all the problems he mentioned. One caveat: it was made mainly for ubuntu, so the ports for the rest may not be of the best quality.
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So I tried it out and it fixes my 2 pet peeves of screen.
1. The defaults are sane (altscreen is on by default, emacs keys in copy mode by default, no stupid "wuff wuff" covering up my prompt, history is 2000 lines instead screen's almost useless 100).
2. Screen sometimes interacts badly with Terminal.app on my mac. I can't run aptitude from within screen on my mac without it randomly switching to graphic charset mode. Also running emacs inside screen sometime results in the arrow keys not working.
I like it so far. I think I'll switch for a while and see how it goes...
1] This is easily fixed in .screenrc:
startup_message off
defscrollback 10000
Also vbell off. Incidentally, byobu is an excellent wrapper around screen without all the problems he mentioned. One caveat: it was made mainly for ubuntu, so the ports for the rest may not be of the best quality.