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Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Bob Rasmussen done said:
> 
> Once you're not on serial, so it's possible to have multiple independent 
> sessions coming from one PC, what is the advantage of working in screen? I 
> seriously want to know.

I can answer that in two words:

autodetach on

I use it even in-house, to my own VM, residing on the same machine.  Why?
Because when someone wants to heat their microwave dinner and my WiFi
desyncs, I can log back in and hit `screen -dr` and pick up as if I never
lost connection--all eight consoles that I have configured to fire up at
original startup, recovered at once.  Ditto with PPPoE, where disruption of
a PPPoE drop/rlogin due to the carrier configuration means that ssh gets
touchy about the disruption in the route if it happens at just the wrong
time, even over DSL or Cable.

It's also great because you can use -ONE- termcap, no matter where you are,
no matter the terminal type.  It just plain works on your latest and
greatest vtxxx, or an ancient pl3plus.  And you can detach and reattach
remotely.  You can multiuser share your sessions for training or technical
assistance.  There are a plethora of things screen rocks for.  But the
best, by far, is autodetach.

> I typically work with several Anzio windows open. Each one is 
> independently positionable. I can Ctrl-tab between them in a cycle. If I 
> wanted, I could assign macros to SWITCHTO a particular window by its 
> title.

I hate having more windows open than necessary.  I have 8 consoles inside
one Anzio session in one window.  Oh, and screen lets me copy/paste without
ever touching a mouse or mousekeys.  :)

> I don't think that's what META us. The link I found related to ncurses 
> talked about turning on and off meta mode in the terminal, using the 'smm' 
> and 'rmm' terminfo features. Neither of these capabilities exist in my 
> terminfo entries for VT320 or VT420, for instance.

No, Jay's right about meta.  The terminology goes back to EMACS.  Any
keystroke starting with ESC was a meta keystroke.  It may go back farther,
but it goes back at -least- that far.

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