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The more I use the terminal, the less I see a need for tmux, screen, byobu, etc. Today I use a double wide screen to solve the side-by-side issue and normal terminal tabs for multiple jobs and Ctrl-Z for things I need running.
I liked that solution of yours with jobs instead of termux. Being a command line junkie myself (or rather, a REFORMED command line junkie) I am ashamed to say I never tried that, I would always stuck with tmux and I never liked the experience. I disliked having to learn the keystrokes to do things, I also faced the same problems as you with the names of each pane (they would all say 'bash'), and in a virtual terminal without fbdev (as happens in BSD based systems and ones where I didn't remember to compile the relevant drivers) that little bar at the bottom takes precious screen real estate.
Anyway, if I get back to the old habits, I'll try using that. I had managed to do do most things without ever going into ncurses, including text editing! Personally, I like that environment a lot more than Emacs. I don't care what they say about virtual terminals being old and obsolete, at least they are streamlined to work with text nicely. I only ever regret they not being able to support UTF-8, for which I am bound to really try with emacs.
Say, I'm out of the loop regarding new technologies, I don't expect you to be any different, but are there any good emacs replacements being developed lately?
Also, I am sorry I haven't been around to reply to other posts, my head just hasn't been quite there lately.