tmux(1) in base

[Peter Wemm]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Joel Dahl <joel at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein skrev:
>>
>> * Garrett Wollman <wollman at hergotha.csail.mit.edu> [090921 06:10] wrote:
>>>
>>> In article <20090921130346.GY21946 at elvis.mu.org> you write:
>>>
>>>> I think he already explained that it's supposedly much better than
>>>> window(1) with a kinder license than screen(1).
>>>>
>>>> We really ought to ship with a screen(1)-like program.
>>>
>>> sudo pkg_add -r screen
>>>
>>> Problem solved.
>>
>> WORKS GREAT ESP WHEN NETWORK IS DOWN AND SOMEONE NEEDS MY HELP.
>>
>> WORKS AWESOME ON REALLY OLD MACHINES WHERE PACKAGES NO LONGER
>> EXIST.
>>
>> Note: Apple, which cares more about a usable userland unix than
>> we do at this time has screen installed in base as well.
>
> OpenBSD has tmux in base...and I've seen discussions on the NetBSD lists
> about importing tmux (as a window(1) replacement) into NetBSD base as
> well...  :-)

For what its worth, I'd like to see tmux in base.  I'd use it.  It
won't get in the way of the screen users. Leave screen where it is.

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