Re: New screen features available

[Brian Mathis]

I think it's great that there is still development going on for screen.  
I for one could not live without screen!

I think vertical split gives an interesting possibility...  Here is the 
scenario:  Say I have a terminal window that's 50 rows by 161 columns.  
I make a vertical split, so now my window is divided into 2 windows of 
50x80.  It would be very cool if those windows could be linked, so 
action in 1 window is the continuation of action in the other.

For example, if I was editing something in 'vi' in a terminal set up 
this way (50x161 with 1 vertical split), vi would think the window was 
100 rows by 80 columns.  My cursor in window 1 would go down to line 50, 
then when it went down to line 51, it would show up in window 2 on line 
51 in vi.

I'm not sure my description is good enough, but the idea is that on a 
wide terminal, you could split that space into 2, and create an extra 
long terminal for 1 program to use.


Michael Schroeder wrote:
> Hi Screen Users,
>
> you probably wonder why the new version of screen is not already
> available. Well, it got delayed a bit because of a couple of new
> features I've added. The development version is available from
> GNU savanna: 
> [...]
> So, feedback welcome. You probably have a lot of suggestions and
> enhancement requests. Sorry that development is a bit slow at
> the moment due to not enough spare time...
>
> Cheers,
>   Michael.
>
>