[Toybox] Editors and such.

[David Seikel]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:14:54 +1000 David Seikel <onefang at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:10:59 +1200 Andre Renaud
> <andre at bluewatersys.com> wrote:
> 
> > > No, they have an implementation of screen. The first one I used
> > > (circa 1993) was from Sun.
> > >
> > > The wonkypedia article says the first pair of maintainers handed
> > > it over to a second pair of maintainers who handed it over to the
> > > gnu project. So it's a bit like Gold and Patch and Grub and EGCS
> > > so on: somebody wrote a thing that worked and the Gnu project
> > > managed to take it over and plaster their name all over it as the
> > > versions they ship bloat and lose reliability.
> > 
> > There is a BSD-licensed terminal multiplexer - 'tmux'. It's
> > conceptually the same as GNU screen, but I'm assuming it's a
> > completely clean code base.
> 
> I did mention tmux when I talked about screen the first time.  I was
> saying that using my new infrastructure and perhaps something like the
> nohup toy, it might be possible to implement something like screen or
> tmux.  It's not actually on my TODO, not part of the design to
> specifically support such things, just mentioning that it might be
> possible.
> 
> I actually use tmux in preference to screen, but that's not a subject
> for this list.  I don't think either screen or tmux are on the toybox
> roadmap.

Just spotted waaay down the bottom of
http://www.landley.net/code/toybox/todo.txt -

"Maybe:
  screen,"

So I'll look at it I guess.  Very low priority, but some of the other
things I want to do should also support most of screen.

-- 
A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants
coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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