On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 04:39:17PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote:
Anyone heard of a way of splitting your terminal into 2 columns (newspaper style columns) where your eg. 180x49 sized xterm then becomes an emulated eg. 90x98 sized xterm? Preferably supporting the full ansi escape sequences.
i used to use splitvt for this. screen can do it as well. BTW, many programs will use the ROWS and COLUMNS environment variables - so you might be able to set COLUMNS=90 before running the program. actually, the coffee's kicked in and i just re-read your question so ignore all that. you want ONE terminal with two linked columns (bottom of first column extends to top of second column, like a newspaper). screen and splitvt (and tmux and others) create two (or more) completely independent ptys inside the terminal. i don't know of anything that does what you want - it would probably have to be written into the application itself, ncurses can be made to support multiple columns.....and web browsers can do it if the CSS and HTML tell them to. otherwise, if 90x98 is what you really need (and the two columns is just a compromise for a small monitor), you could buy a really big pivot screen and turn it on it's side so that it's tall rather than wide. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>