[chriswarbo]

I use st as my terminal application. Inside, I run dtach to provide detaching/reattaching functionality. Inside that I run dvtm to provide multiplexing and scrollback. Inside that I run bash. Inside that I run ad hoc commands.

Everything's highly composable, e.g. I can switch out bash for zsh, fish, etc. I can switch out dtach for abduco. I can switch out dvtm for tmux or screen. I can switch out st for xterm or urxvt. And so on.

Adding an extra layer for scrollback, separate from a multiplexer, wouldn't disrupt anything, and would provide more flexibility for composition.

[atombender]

Each to his own. Your setup sounds like a parody of the most outlandishly neckbeardy things devs can do in a shell. Most users don't want to deal with that sort of "layering".

[chriswarbo]

> Your setup sounds like a parody of the most outlandishly neckbeardy things devs can do in a shell.

I shaved off my neckbeard, I'll have you know! ;)

My setup's no more outlandish than using tmux or screen, except instead of typing `tmux` or `screen` I type `shell`, which aliases a `dtach dvtm` one-liner (with a few options sprinkled around, so I don't have to bother with config files).

The point is that none of these applications care if/how they're composed; if I want to add in or swap out something, it's just a change that one-liner.

Not so if, say, my terminal application were hard-coded to rely on tmux, as some sibling comments have suggested.

[netheril96]

The famous saying: every problem can be solved by another layer of indirection, except the problem of too many indirections.