[PLUG] Terminal multiplexers

[Russell Senior]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 5:40 AM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> Just learned about tmux, a terminal multiplexer supposedly similar to
> screen. The man page tells me what it does and I want to understand when it
> would be appropriate to use it.
>
> If you have used tmux (or another terminal multiplexer) please explain the
> context. What benefits does it provide and in what situations?
>
> A curious mind wants to learn,
>

Those curious minds could use a search engine and possibly find Wikipedia,
where those minds might find the following verbiage:

"Screen is often used when a network connection to the terminal is
unreliable, as a dropped network connection typically terminates all
programs the user was running (child processes of the login session), due
to the session ending and sending a "hangup" signal (SIGHUP
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGHUP>) to all the child processes. Running
the applications under screen means that the session does not terminate –
only the now-defunct terminal gets detached – so applications don't even
know the terminal has detached, and allows the user to reattach the session
later and continue working from where they left off."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Screen