Combined with nohup, this could probably be useful for detaching/reattaching to long running processes across user sessions?
I'm back to using tmux again, but for a while I was using another program dtach, to start vim sessions that I could disconnect and reattach to. Inside neovim I'd have a bunch of terminals & buffers & what not, so it felt redundant having tmux also hosting an event higher level environment.
Dtach is super super lightweight. Tmux is keeping copies of each screen in memory, is doing some reprocessing. Dtach is basically a pipe wrapping input a program's input and output, data in data out.
I even wrote a little shell script to let me very quickly 'dta my-proje' which will go autocomplete my-project name and either open the existing dtach session in that project or go create dtach session with vim in it. https://github.com/jauntywunderkind/dtachment/blob/master/dt...
It would be interesting to see something like dtach used for automation or scripting, as it seems targeted for. The idea of being able to relay around the input and output feels like it should have some neat uses. There isn't really a protocol, afaik, and there's definitely no retained state for a getView like ht. But it should in many ways function similarly?
I'm back to using tmux again, but for a while I was using another program dtach, to start vim sessions that I could disconnect and reattach to. Inside neovim I'd have a bunch of terminals & buffers & what not, so it felt redundant having tmux also hosting an event higher level environment.
Dtach is super super lightweight. Tmux is keeping copies of each screen in memory, is doing some reprocessing. Dtach is basically a pipe wrapping input a program's input and output, data in data out.
I even wrote a little shell script to let me very quickly 'dta my-proje' which will go autocomplete my-project name and either open the existing dtach session in that project or go create dtach session with vim in it. https://github.com/jauntywunderkind/dtachment/blob/master/dt...
It would be interesting to see something like dtach used for automation or scripting, as it seems targeted for. The idea of being able to relay around the input and output feels like it should have some neat uses. There isn't really a protocol, afaik, and there's definitely no retained state for a getView like ht. But it should in many ways function similarly?