same here, and tmux lets you share more than just your vim session. We use it regularly for pair programming, some times even in the same office, each one at his own computer.

I liked that coVim launches its own server, so you don't rely on having to ssh to the same box, but at the same time, I imagine ssh should be safer.

We use the same setup and really like that you share the entire terminal instead of just the editor. Is there any good reason to use this instead of tmux sessions? While it's kinda cool i don't understand why people are trying to put everything in vim instead of using other complementary tools.

What seems to be the key feature is the text coloring, which I don't think you can get using screen or tmux.

tmux supports 256 colors with the -2 flag. I just add an alias in my .bashrc to make this the default.

I think he meant having different cursors, each with a different colour assigned to a person, and being able to use each cursor independently. not just colours in general...

Ah! ok, that's a major plus for CoVim then. Looks like I somehow missed the coolest feature.

Do you mean via wemux? https://github.com/zolrath/wemux

No, vanilla tmux does it.