Re: tmux(1) in base

From: Roman Divacky <rdivacky_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:29:17 +0200
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 01:26:57PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> At the DevSummit in Cambridge we briefly discussed including tmux(1) in
> the base system. We recently had window(1) there, but unfortunately
> window(1) was a very limited tool, compared to tools like screen(1) and
> tmux(1). Why tmux(1) and not screen(1)? Well, simple. The first has a
> better license and very active maintenance.
> 
> I was talking with the author on IRC the other day and it seemed like I
> spoke with him at a fortunate moment, because he was just about to
> release version 1.0. I think it would be nice to import this into HEAD,
> which means FreeBSD 9.0 (maybe 8.1?) will include it by default.
> 
> How to test tmux in base:
> 
> - Download this tarball and extract it to contrib/tmux:
>   http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tmux/tmux-1.0.tar.gz
> - Apply the following patch:
>   http://80386.nl/pub/tmux.diff
> 
> Comments?

can tmux be configured to be 100% compatible with screen? if so
are we going to ship with such a config on default?
Received on Mon Sep 21 2009 - 09:32:49 UTC

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