[LUNI] more vi term goodness?

[Ronald E. Petty]

I downloaded everything for cygwin, and unless I missed it, it doesn't
have screen.  I will double check though.

Ron

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, David Terrell wrote:

> 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.
>
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