Interesting escape character; though I think backslash moves around too much
for me personally. (I use a lot of different keyboards!)
I didn't think I was missing anything until I started really using it either!
That's why I ask for screen features that people use that I don't; you
generally don't know what you're missing until someone points it out. When I
was younger I didn't think I was missing much using a heavily modified gEdit
for coding; but now I use Vim and know the error of my ways!
I use splits all the time, mostly for running/monitoring build tasks, workers
and test suites without either having to flick between windows/tabs or having
to give up too much screen real-estate. Shows enough information so that you
know it's working (or not!) without taking up too much space - plus I can zoom
it easily with {prefix}z if I need to see more history at once and it's super
simple to resize/rearrange/set up.
(I've yet to learn emacs - trying to get a decent grip on Vim first! I won't
start a flame war by asking if it's worth it...)
On 15 Apr 2013, at 22:09, Victor Churchill <victorchurch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think this may come down to use cases and contexts. I have not made use of
> the split-screen feature in screen and not missed it really: this may be due
> to my desktop monitors at home being not huge (one 17", one 19") so if the
> space is split it's not /quite/ big enough; interestingly I have just been on
> a contract where everyone used 24 inch plus monitors and I was starting to
> feel that with the extra space it could be useful.
>
> But also I tend to do a lot of work in an emacs session where it's very quick
> and easy to split and unsplit the screen. So I just run a number of
> full-screen bash prompt 'windows' and an emacs one with several direds and
> files (and often a shell as well) in it in separate sub-panels. ( Oh, and
> btw, I configured my escape character to be ctrl-backslash :-)
>
>
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