> Frank Terbeck wrote:
> Suresh Govindachar
>> Personally, the step mentioned below, viz., "moving the mouse
>> to the xterm" is a _big_ pain. As a user, what I like about
>> the idea of a shell inside vim is the means to avoid the mouse.
>> <C-Z> in console vim does avoid the mouse but it doesn't allow
>> simultaneous view and fast access of vim and the shell; and
>> the shell from <C-Z> doesn't support commands supported by a
>> vim buffer.
>
> Just use GNU screen <http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/>.
> There's no need for a mouse just to switch between vim and a
> shell at all.
Thanks, but I am on Windows. Also, poking around in
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/screen leads one to the
mailing list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gnu-screen which
has the notice:
GNU screen is NOT developed any more.
The maintainers only fix serious bugs.
From the dates of the files, development on screen stopped
in Jan 2004.
I suspect developing a terminal is a complex project.
- The rxvt shell from MinGW is not recommend by them for
general use (and does odd things when one uses it
generally);
- tcsh from Amol cannot run UnixUtils from
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net.
- There is someone who patches vim to support a shell but does
so only for Unix; he doesn't support it for Windows and I do
not know if he has gone beyond 6.3 or 6.4.
--Suresh
--Suresh
