I have no idea how this slipped under the radar, but the Mac OS X Terminal.app, which is probably my most heavily used application, can be used in tabbed mode now! Many friends and co-workers switched to iterm or other terminal programs for this feature prior to Leopard (10.5) because the included Terminal.app only supported one session in each window, but apparently, since 10.5/Leopard, Terminal.app can be tabbed as well. Now I can run many UNIX shell sessions in one window.
On my huge desktop screen this will no matter, as I’ll probably continue to just fire up dozens of windows; but on my little laptop, saving the screen real estate will be a big help. Thanks Apple!
In other happy news, screen rocks for detaching from running shell sessions and re-attaching later.
screen start long running jobs... CNTRL-A d exit ... enjoy lunch or a frothy beverage ... ssh back into your connection screen -r
there are your running jobs… still running or finished and happy to feed you all your output
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