I did, 14-13 years ago. I would just run mc/mcedit in VT and switch virtual terminals with Alt+F#. I did most of my programming there with mcedit, but switched

I did, 14-13 years ago. I would just run mc/mcedit in VT and switch virtual terminals with Alt+F#. I did most of my programming there with mcedit, but switched to X for web browsing. I was writing distro build scripts and networking libraries in C, so I didn't need the browser that often. I grew up on MS-DOS, so it was not really such a long stretch, to work this way.