[PLUG] two column xterm?

[jgw at tx0.org]

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.

You could start using a tiling window manager[1], something like i3[2]
or dwm[3].  People are using these on everything from ubuntu to NetBSD.
Adding in screen[4] or dvtm[5] gets you even more versatality.

Jeff W.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager
[2] http://i3.zekjur.net/
[3] http://dwm.suckless.org/
[4] http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/
[5] http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/