[ale] Terminals within a terminal

[Josh Freeman]

Is this in xterm or from the console. I tried it, and I couldn't get it
to work. this would be an exceedingly neat trick to know. . .. 

Thanks,

josh

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 16:04, Stephen Leonard wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:50:22PM -0500, John Wells wrote:
> > Nope...I don't think screen will do it.  Here's what I mean:
> > 
> > Having a screen that looks like this:
> > 
> > |--------------------------------------|
> > |$            |$           |$          |
> > |             |            |           |
> > |             |            |           |
> > |             |            |           |
> > ----------------------------------------
> > |$            |$           |$          |
> > |             |            |           |
> > |             |            |           |
> > |             |            |           |
> > ----------------------------------------
> > 
> > Where each square is a separate shell.  Screen allows you to multiplex
> > shells to one terminal, but I'm pretty sure you can only view one of the
> > shells at a time.  In other words, you may have 5 shells running, but only
> > one of them can be the currently viewed shell.  You have to switch among
> > them.
> 
> C-a S will split a screen.  As I type this email, I'm
> viewing irssi in a split screen session.
> 
> > I realize I could start up 6 xterms to get this, but keeping them all
> > contained within one terminal would make it much easier to move around,
> > etc.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by moving around but
> C-a n, where n is a number allows me to move easily
> enough between shells in a screen session.
> 
> stephen
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Josh Freeman
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