miniblog.

I've learning more about Zellij, and it increasingly feels like a nice tiling window manager for working in terminals. My mental model for tmux and screen was that their main focus was persistence (detach/attach between SSH sessions). Zellij seems to focus on layout.

Playing with Zellij this week (a terminal multiplexer like screen/tmux) and it's worked great so far. It's nice having many short-lived, named terminal sessions on a remote machine. Normally I'd have multiple iTerm windows, but they end up with huge histories.

I'm increasingly treating terminal sessions as short lived: starting a fresh terminal tab keeps scrollback short and easy to search. I'd love to have a terminal emulator that allows me to skip over output of specific verbose commands when searching.