On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:40:58 -0500 Erik Mitchell <erik.mitchell at gmail.com> wrote: > Dude it's worth it. I'm partial to "screen" myself, although I've > heard good things about tmux too. Either way, if you're running long > jobs on a remote machine, it's a necessity. I'd like to point out as well that a very small initial investment into screen will have a very large payoff. Learning only Ctrl-A C, Ctrl-A [number], Ctrl-A D, and Ctrl-A Esc will go a LONG way. -Max