I've fallen out of using it, but for a while I was using dtach to do similar without the virtual terminal multiplexing. Much much more direct.

I'd just run a vim session. If I needed terminals, they were in my vim! Even wrote a short shell-script to automate creating or re-attaching to a project specific vim session. https://github.com/jauntywunderkind/dtachment

Haven't looked into it, but I'm love a deeper nvim + atuin (shell history) integration.

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iiyama 4 days ago | parent [-]

It might be quite similar window/tab managing functionality, but for me it's the same thing that made me choose tmux over screen: it comes with a nice status bar as default and hotkeys are somehow easier to memorize.

	▲	jauntywundrkind a day ago \| parent [-]
		My dtach+nvim uses nvim as terminal multiplexer & "status bar", which is pretty ok! Dtach only serves as a very very dumb pass through (where-as tmux really is a persistent virtual terminal that clients can read-out from).