[LUNI] more vi term goodness?

[David Terrell]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 02:02:25PM -0500, Ronald E. Petty wrote:
> I want to edit code in the top windows of the split, but use the bottom
> windows to run compiling and other normal term uses.  I know you can use !
> to excecute commands and get the results, but I want to just interact with
> the term without having to do any overhead (short of maybe a key or two to
> get things going).
>
> If VI can't do this, is there a way in a terminal windows to split it to
> do two things at once?  I am using cygwin, but run in full screen so I
> dont want to switch between windows or have several open and resized!

Cygwin?  Hey, wait a second...

What you really want to use is screen.  why limit your shell to a vi 
session....  I believe screen is in modern cygwin distributions.