[stiff]

This actually works with GNU Screen. Because of this, and because of the lack of workspace reordering in tmux, I seem to be actually about the only person who likes Screen more than tmux.

[jc79]

> because of the lack of workspace reordering in tmux

What do you mean? Commands like tmux swap-window and tmux move window allow you do move the order of the windows / workspaces.

[stiff]

See this discussion:

http://superuser.com/questions/343572/how-do-i-reorder-tmux-...

It kind of works in the end, but it's arguably a bit more awkward to use than in screen.

[jc79]

Your right, I remember that discussion: I actually use pier solution, with the shellscript (I assigned them to Ctrl-A + Number)

I agree that it does not work 'out of the box', but once setup, it works quite nice :)

[zimpenfish]

I'm a screen die-hard. tmux is probably lovely but since it's not on 100% of the machines I use, it's not going to get any traction with me.

[Haul4ss]

You're not! I work on a team of Screen enthusiasts. We all use it, every day.

[memming]

Why not just keep your key bindings compatible with screen? You can't stay with legacy systems forever.

[res0nat0r]

There really isn't anything 'legacy' with screen. I've been using it for 20 years daily. I really have no reason to switch to tmux because I really can't see anything screen doesn't already offer me.

Vertical splits were patched in and added a long time ago, screen is usually installed by default, so I know it is there on systems where I'm not allowed to install packages. I can share screen sessions with co-workers, split windows etc.

[pyre]

> Vertical splits were patched in and added a long time ago

IIRC, that patch floated around for a while.

The other thing that tmux brings to the table is better scripting support than screen + things like tmuxinator (for me at least).