[PLUG] two column xterm?

[Ken Stephens]

Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 05:36:27PM -0700, Paul Mullen wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 01:36:19PM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>>     
>>> My previous rant on screen width reminded me - are there any
>>> programs that work like xterm but bring up two or more windows,
>>> one scrolling into the other, like two-column mode in word
>>> processors?  This would be nice for working on long ascii
>>> documents.
>>>       
>> Split vim windows? Not as flexible as a terminal emulator, but fine
>> for editing text (if vim is your thing).
>>     
>
> No, I want a general purpose text terminal.  The vim capability is
> OK, but ls -l, email, less, man pages, command line error output,
> and many other text apps can run on for pages.  Yes, I can capture
> the session to a file and look at that in vim (or with less, in
> multiple windows), but it is a poor substitute, especially given that
> modern screens are not so tall and bunches of characters wide.
>
> Keith
>
>   
Have you investigated vimdiff?  It compares similar files horizontally.

Ken Stephens,
CAD 2 CAM