Re: [RP] stupid? (v)split screen trick (idea)

[Shawn Betts]

Joe Corneli <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I was thinking it would be kind of neat to have 2 rxvt frames next to each
> other, set up so that the frame A just displayed the last N+1 through 2N
> lines from frame B (N is equal to number of rows of text displayed on the
> screen).  Ideally this would be set up so that if you were scrolling up or
> down in e.g. more or what have you, the text would change in frame A
> appropriately, so you'd always have 2 pages onscreen at once.  For Emacs,
> even better would be if you could also lock the scroll (Scroll_lock?) and
> move your cursor seamlessly out of frame B and into frame A.  Maybe this
> already exists outside of ratpoison, could be used as a plug-in? Anyway it
> seems like a very ratpoisony idea, so thought I'd mention it.

Hi Joe,

You can do this in Emacs with follow-mode. Take a look, pretty cool stuff.

Shawn