[ale] Terminals within a terminal

[Stephen Leonard]

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