tmux(1) in base

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Tom Evans <tevans.uk at 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 at 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always be outdated in FreeBSD and as such I would prefer to get it  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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