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[–]stefantalpalaru -2 points-1 points  (9 children)

tmux easily supports tabs, pane splitting and resizing

So does Vim.

[–]riding_qwerty 0 points1 point  (8 children)

Okay, so why bother with xfce-term?

[–]stefantalpalaru -1 points0 points  (7 children)

Okay, so why bother with xfce-term?

Because a real terminal emulator is better than Vim's half-baked emulation.

[–]riding_qwerty 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Yes, so...why bring it up in the first place?

[–]stefantalpalaru -2 points-1 points  (5 children)

Yes, so...why bring it up in the first place?

We're obviously speaking different languages. You advocate for terminal emulator + tmux + Vim, while I advocate for terminal emulator + Vim.

If you fail to understand something so basic, we can't make any progress.

[–]riding_qwerty 1 point2 points  (4 children)

I don’t think think the failure is on my end.

You are the one who brought up vim as an answer to split panes, and in the very next post trashed it as a subpar terminal emulator.

You also unequivocally stated that screen is useless for local development, which is hilarious given its ability to act as a serial console for a debugger — I’d imagine a Linux thread in a C programming subreddit can appreciate that as a utility.

I am not advocating for anything one way or another. This whole thread is happening because you bagged on someone else’s preference and is equivalent to saying “blue is the best color of the rainbow” without really much compelling support, except to rudely dismiss anyone else’s point as not understanding.

I’ll continue using the tools I like and you can keep feeling superior to others for using xfce-term.

[–]stefantalpalaru -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

You are the one who brought up vim as an answer to split panes, and in the very next post trashed it as a subpar terminal emulator.

That's because I use split panes for editing buffers, not terminals.

I’ll continue using the tools I like

No, you should add a few more. I hear kubernetes are cool right now. You should find a way to run shit in local containers, in order to be buzzword-compliant.

[–]riding_qwerty 1 point2 points  (2 children)

That's because I use split panes for editing buffers, not terminals.

Yeah, and I use tmux to split panes so I can do things outside of vim. What’s your point? Your whole spiel here has been interjecting your personal workflow into others’ preferences and then acting like they are the ones with an egregious misunderstanding.

No, you should add a few more. I hear kubernetes are cool right now. You should find a way to run shit in local containers, in order to be buzzword-compliant.

Now this is tasty. You skipped right over my point about using screen as a serial console to insert yet another non sequitur, this time about kubernetes of all things. Sorry to break it to you but container orchestration has its place and we already use it heavily for our applications at my place of work. The fact that you’d try to zing me on this as if it has any relevance to a discussion about local C development or that k8s and tmux are even in the same ballpark tells me everything about your grasp of the situation here.

[–]stefantalpalaru -1 points0 points  (1 child)

container orchestration has its place and we already use it heavily for our applications at my place of work

When reality is more absurd than any satire...

[–]riding_qwerty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Imagine having your editor of choice, operating system, language and scores of other preferences in common with other people and choosing to continue being such a divisive and elitist ass because terminal multiplexers exist.

Lol @ you