[alec]

I'm with you. I tried tmux but didn't find any benefit and several serious drawbacks.

Many of the purported benefits - better configuration language, more maintainable code - don't matter to me:

- Screen is done and isn't going to change. Debian has had the vertical splits patch for so long I was surprised it was a patch.

- My configuration of screen is not going to change. It's five lines that I copied and pasted 10 years ago. There's just not that much that needs to be configured.

The "Multiple Clients Sharing One Session" thing is important to me and screen gets it right by default. It's useful to have a few fixed xterms on my screen and a bunch of multiplexed terminals in screen. I use one screen session per task.

I think "screen contents persisted through full-screen programs" is screen's "altscreen on" setting. Or at least that's my note from the person whose screenrc I stole.