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Screen doesn't do vertical splits. That's a dealbreaker for me. Tmux does. But tmux has another problem: very rapid scrolling in one window will make the progr

by psranga 17y ago

Screen doesn't do vertical splits. That's a dealbreaker for me. Tmux does. But tmux has another problem: very rapid scrolling in one window will make the program completely unresponsive. In the same situation, screen doesn't have this problem. I posted to the user list and the developer very quickly sent me a patch, but it didn't fix the problem for me, although it worked for the developer. Still working with the developer on this.

andrewscagnelli 17y ago
There is a port of screen that includes vertical splits. Its nifty, but requires the source to be patched: http://fungi.yuggoth.org/vsp4s/ http://fungi.yuggoth.org/vsp4s/
- psranga 17y ago
  I read the README/blog post somewhere that vertical scrolling in one of the subwindows is very slow. Hence I have not tried it out. Do you have any experience with this?
- psranga 17y ago
  Just tried out the screen from git as somebody pointed out above. Works as advertised. Pretty cool!
mmc 17y ago
Screen has apparently had this in CVS since 2008: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?15442 http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?15442
- silentbicycle 17y ago
  So what you're saying is that one of the most demanded features has been in the CVS version since June of 2008, but hasn't made it into a stable release?