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Overview
tmux is similar to screen as it lets you run numerous TTY’s in the
same terminal window. It supports some very cool and intuitive
features natively as well as a much more readable configuration syntax
(ever looked at a .screenrc file?).
Why TMUX over Screen?
- A clearly defined cilent/server model (windows are their own
clients which allows flexibility on how you handle windows. You
can attach and detach different windows in different sessions
without any issues)
- Consistent, well-documented command interface. (You can use the
same commands interactively as in the .tmux.conf file, more on
that later)
- Easily scriptable
- Multiple paste buffers
- Vi & Emacs keybindings
- A more usable status line syntax (which also allows you to embed
the output of a shell command, handy indeed.
Updated: Sun Oct 2 15:51:36 2011