[PLUG] two column xterm?

[chris (fool) mccraw]

not to be totally pedantic, but rotating your monitor is pretty easy
these days (from a software POV).  see xrandr(1).  i had a 24" LCD
rotated at my last work-desk and i could hold a ridiculously long
terminal window in it.  and i did.  even though i use a huge font, it
was still >100 lines long and i had room for another normal 25-liner
underneath it (and some applets next to both of them, since i like my
terminals in 80-char widths regardless of length).

i think the hacks based on screen(1) are likely to be nifty but not
functional in some way or another for the proposed workload.  or
really anything that TERM=dumb couldn't handle.


On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:04, Rogan Creswick <creswick at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> I wonder if this could be done with screen -- could you run a screen
> session in the "active" terminal, then view that session from another
> terminal, and set it to display the scrollback content from the
> "active" terminal?  (some minor exploration hasn't confirmed that this
> is possible... but it sure seems like it should work.)
>
> Screen can also log to a file, and that could be processed by a simple
> tail / cat-like app to show all but the last n-lines, to correspond to
> the other terminal's height.
>
> --Rogan
>
>
>
>> Keith
>>
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