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One advantage of screen over tmux I found is that it has much better mouse support.

I think mouse support in Tmux is significantly better; it is hidden behind config flags but tmux supports window and screen switching, buffer scrolling (mouse wheel support), copy-on-select, plus you can bind mouse keys as part of functions.

Version 2.1 of tmux combined all those config flags to a simple :mouse=on, so you don't have to go through one by one to enable all the mouse features.

The other advantage is `nethack` mode! `echo 'nethack on' >> ~/.screenrc`

    Be careful! New screen tonight.

Yup. I can never get tmux configured in a way that lets me use the mouse through a remote session from osx at work and Ubuntu at home.

I use this every single day and it works perfectly. Are you using the default OSX terminal? If so you should try iTerm2 instead.

I love iterm2! Here's my setup:

Ubuntu 14.04 server is running tmux.

I ssh into that server from an osx laptop and attach to the tmux session. After a ton of configuration mouse actions mostly work (copy/paste is always wonky).

I also ssh into that server from an Ubuntu laptop. The same configuration I needed to get mouse working for osx is no longer applicable.

I've never even thought of writing a screenrc and it's always worked great.

Why iTerm2? OS X Terminal.app supports mouse events just fine on OS X 10.11, and it even has a key shortcut to toggle mouse support on/off for those times when you want to select text instead of sending mouse events.

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