[PLUG] Dividing up a console screen

Jeme A Brelin jeme at brelin.net
Wed Oct 20 21:32:02 UTC 2004


On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Wil Cooley wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 18:01 -0700, Jeme A Brelin wrote:
> > But if you want to view them simultaneously, well, I'm not sure how one
> > could do that.  Screen only creates full-screen windows.
>
> Not true.  'screen' can split the terminal horizontally.

Crazy.  I didn't do deep research, I just saw this line that confirmed my
experience:

<quote src="http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/">
When screen is called, it creates a single window with a shell in it (or
the specified command) and then gets out of your way so that you can use
the program as you normally would. Then, at any time, you can create new
(full-screen) windows with other programs in them (including more shells),
kill the current window, view a list of the active windows, turn output
logging on and off, copy text between windows, view the scrollback
history, switch between windows, etc. All windows run their programs
completely independent of each other.
</quote>

So I took that to mean it was only capable of full-screen windows.

J.
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