On Sat, 7 Feb 2015, Brian May wrote:
On 7 February 2015 at 16:39, Tim Connors <tim.w.connors@gmail.com> 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 think any of tmux, screen, emacs, etc, will do this...
screen and tmux create new shells for each pane, AFAICS. I want just the one shell, which can be split and the shell subsequently recieves SIGWINCH and $COLUMNS doubles (or halves) and (if bash supported such an environment variable - I can get the equivalent from Term::ReadKey) $ROWS correspondingly halved (or doubles). Emacs can definitely do it, but is not so scriptable in a self contained bash script (hmmm, users might not appreciate me writing an emacs --no-init-file and big elisp bundle just for a small lightweight monitoring display). -- Tim Connors