[venusenvy47]

I use tmux specifically for your first example. I'm not a power user, but after trying screen and tmux, I didn't find anything missing in tmux (relative to screen) and I found it easier to do the things I was interested in. I also like having the ability to attach to an existing tmux session or start one if it doesn't already exist by using something like this: "tmux new -A -s me", which I have as an alias and "me" is just a name for the tmux session. I'm not sure if screen has this feature, but I found this single command lets me get going with a multi-window session without having to first check if I already have a session running.