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Poll: Do you use “screen”

4 points by CarolineW ↗ HN
I use "screen" constantly, and yet the other day I bumped into a colleague who is considered by others to be a command line guru, and yet who doesn't use screen. So I was wondering about the HN crowd - do you use screen?

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CarolineW
I'm pretty sure the options as displayed here are not in the order I put them when I submitted this.

HN Mods - does your software re-order poll options?

Edit: OK, having just checked this submission again I see that the options appear to be ordered randomly on each re-load. Interesting.

gus_massa
They probably added this for the ApplyHN last round and forget. In some cases it's a good idea and in some cases it's a bad idea, so perhaps it can be left as an option when creating the poll. To contact the mods, try sending an email to hn@ycombinator.com because some threads are unnoticed.
CyberFonic
How about: I never use screen, I use terminal and command line all the time.

On Apple OS X, I use terminal, typically with 5-9 windows open. Never use tabs either. Of course, I'm a *nix grey :-)

CarolineW
Surely that comes under the "Very rarely (or never)" option, doesn't it?
therealidiot
Some people swear by tmux

Whatever floats your boat

[dead] d0xy
Yep. On older prod boxes. On my own - tmux/tmuxinator.