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regarding screen: split command poorly documented
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Package: screen
Version: 4.0.2-4.1
Severity: wishlist
The split command is poorly documented on the man page. All one
manages to do is create a second window with nothing in it.
You had better give examples of how one could do something useful.
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Version: 4.0.3-14
Hi,
[email protected] wrote:
> >>>>> "JCN" == Jan Christoph Nordholz <[email protected]> writes:
>
> JCN> Hi Dan,
> JCN> how would you improve the documentation? There's nothing more
> JCN> to the split command... as the manpage states, it creates a
> JCN> blank region, 'C-a <tab>' jumps between regions, and then you're
> JCN> free to do what you want with it (and eventually dispose of it
> JCN> with 'remove' or 'only'). What do you have in mind?
>
> Oh, no wonder. The main problem with the man page is
>
> split
>
> Split the current region into two new ones. All regions on the display
> are resized to make room for the new region. The blank window is dis-
> played on the new region. Use the "remove" or the "only" command to
> delete regions.
>
>
> doesn't mention that one can use C-a <tab> to move to the other
> region,
This has been fixed at least in the screen version which is in Squeeze
by adding the sentence "Use "focus" to toggle between regions."
Therefore closing this bug accordingly.
> and then e.g., C-a c to start a shell there. Etc.
I agree with Nico that the explanations elsewhere in the man page
should suffice for this.
> (Indeed, one wonders why a shell isn't started there upon birth.)
I don't think that's a good idea. Usually I split windows and then
choose an existing window to be displayed in the until then blank
half.
Regards, Axel
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