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To me, name collisions are only a big deal if the app or project exists in very similar use case scenarios. In this case, I'd say confusion could easily happen if ''screen'' replaced ''screen'' in the path or a call. How about "Soloterm"? Have you thought of others?

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Not only confusion, but inability to just install on mac/linux, right? I believe both come with screen by default…

Edit: let me actually think a bit before commenting - it would probably just install, but then you run screen and you might or might not get your newly-installed software (so yeah confusion). Not a great first experience at worst

It's a package you install into your PHP application. It's impossible for it to collide. You cannot run Solo Screen as a standalone tool.

Heh, should’ve thought a bit longer apparently. But, in my defense, I work an office job and it’s Friday evening. Iykyk

It's a package you install into your PHP application. It's impossible for it to collide.

Question: can you call GNU screen from within screen?

> Question: can you call GNU screen from within screen?

No. It's literally just an in memory buffer that you interact with from PHP.

In Solo (https://github.com/soloterm/solo) we do use GNU screen though.

Thanks, good to know. You and others may have noticed some odd activities in this thread (I use Refined Hacker News and can see them) so I'm glad for your responses to my well-meant comments.

Yeah someone's really got a vendetta against SA and HN right now huh? Weird stuff!

It seems to me that you can, from within the terminal that it provides, I supposed depending on what shell you run within the emulator. Your example even shows you running tail, so I expect it's running some sort of shell I'd expect screen could be available on.

Unless, this terminal emulator is missing specific features that mean screen doesn't work in it, which would make me feel the definition has been stretched a little here.

Either way, I have to heavily agree with duskwuff's take:

> They're both pieces of software which implement or interact with terminal emulators; I think some deconfliction is warranted here.

Edit: I've learned from a different comment [0] that the latter is indeed the case. This isn't really a terminal emulator.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43438797#43439716

They're both pieces of software which implement or interact with terminal emulators; I think some deconfliction is warranted here.

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