[ale] Tmux, where have you been alll my life?

[DJ-Pfulio]

On 09/14/2016 08:28 AM, James Sumners wrote:
> 
> Connections do fail. I don't care how stable they are 99.9999999% of the
> time. Do you want that rare occurrence to screw up a vitally important
> operation? If not, use a multiplexer.

Connections do definitely fail, but I can only remember a handful of
times that mattered over 25 yrs.  During a vitally important operation,
use tee and detach from the remote terminal.

Guess it is just a different way of working to solve the same issue. At
least that's what it appears with my extremely limited understanding.

> it's nice to have a multiplexer so that work can simply be resumed
> when moving from one computer to another.

I use x2go for that - it provides my complete desktop, not just
terminals. Actually don't need it very often, checking the progress via
log files (created by tee) handles it mostly.

I get the passion people have for tmux and feel confident I'm missing
something very useful. ;)  Thanks for trying to pass this on.

Found a few youtube videos on tmux to watch.