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An AppleScript to spawn multiple Terminal windows
Authored by: psifertex on Jun 11, '07 10:35:47AM

Why not use gnu screen? That's exactly what it's for, except it has the advantages that:

  1. It's easier to customize the startup of it via a .screenrc file
  2. It can be de-attached and re-attached even if you log out of the gui as long as the box is still up.
  3. It supports its own copy/paste buffer which is useful when working with bug chunks of text inside multiple machines.
  4. You can share the session and allow others to view what you're doing!

There's many other advantages as well. One thing to note -- by default, screen doesn't really give you much feedback as to which screen you're on, so adding something like the following to your .screenrc file is useful:

caption always "%{=}%?%{r}%H %L=%{+b}%?%{b}%-Lw%47L>%?%{w}%n*%f %t %?%{b}%+Lw%?%{g}%-31=%c %l %Y-%m-%d"

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