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People say tmux is more powerful. Whatever that means?

Screen seems to cover all my needs and it learning it is easy. I came for the tabs (windows), sessions, copy and paste - but the must have for everyone is the scrollback buffer. You need it! Especially since we can scroll one the plain terminal.




> People say tmux is more powerful. Whatever that means?

I very rarely use screen/tmux nowadays, but as I recall tmux is a better fit for someone who wants to script their interaction. It makes it easy to send keys to other panes/windows in the session, and also to capture the content from other existing panes/windows.


Thanks. I don’t need that features but I see the use case for others.


It doesn't seem like screen has plugin support - while tmux has a fairly large plugin ecosystem.




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