On 3. Dec, 2009, at 23:23 , Rodolfo Lima wrote:

John Drescher escreveu:
install screen

Thanks for the tip but that's not my point in this whole thread (i.e.
I'm not looking for solutions, I'm giving one).

CMake does so much complicate things to make working with software
projects a seamless experience across different platforms that I doubt
that automatically managing a symlink tree is such a huge effort.

I once wrote a cmake-macro which created these symlink trees (only for the headers, though). It was a huge PITA. With such symlink trees you can never be really sure that they are consistent with the source tree.

Why make things complicated when you have such a simple option as having two terminals open? If you're using GNU screen, you can even split your terminal into several, individually sized windows. As an added plus, you don't "cross-pollute" your command line histories. When I'm in editing mode, I don't want to crawl through build commands, and vice versa.

My 2c...

Michael
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