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Authored by: krishna on Aug 01, '03 02:58:41PM

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... I'm probably an idiot for saying this, but I find 'screen' way too complicated to use for anything beyond the simplest level -- I use it when I want to start a remote download and then disconnect, but that's it. Anything beyond that, and I find myself quickly lost in a mess of screen changes
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Always good to meet a fellow idiot (ref: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58868 :-). Let's rephrase the question: is there a good reason why a detachable-screen terminal emulator with piles and piles of magic keystroke commands (making it usable via ssh session or via x-terminal) *shouldn't* make use of menus, context menus, tabs (i.e., the full range of GUI elements) when they're available?

Emacs took until version 18-ish to provide a mousable menu for the common keystroke commands, immediately improving its usability by both keyboarders and mousers. Shouldn't screen learn from that lesson?



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