Hi Zbyszek, Raniere,

Perhaps splitting the screen vertically to include a much longer history
would be better? I find that I have plenty of horizonal space during my
teaching sessions!

Juan.

On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 3:57 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 06:56:42AM -0300, Raniere Silva wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I remember reading something about this a log time ago
> > but my searching skills to the archive aren't very good this morning.
> >
> > I just want to let you know that I give a try
> > to split the terminal in two using the up part for keep the last commands
> > visible for the learners and the session was very well.
> >
> > I wrote more about it at
> http://blog.rgaiacs.com/2015/06/18/swc_shell.html
> > if you have interest. And feedbacks are welcome.
> >
> > Cheers and enjoy your weekend,
> > Raniere
> Hi Raniere,
>
> I used your script (with slight modifications) during git tutorial in
> Notre Dame last week. I made some further modifications to recover
> more screen "real estate" — tmux menu bar was removed, prompt was made
> minimialistic. Nevertheless, I think it was at best mixed success.
> No fault of the script of course, it worked perfectly. The problem
> is that 5 or 6 lines of history is not enough for someone who
> loses track or wants to recall a command from 5 minutes ago to do that.
> When doing anything with git, I tend to use 'git status', 'git log',
> 'git diff', 'git show' a lot to check what happened and what will happen.
> But each of those commands shows up in history, so, in effect, only
> one or two commands that "do stuff" would appear in the 5-6 line log
> window. But dedicating much space would not leave enough space for
> other output, so is not an option either.
>
> As a result of this lesson, I think something that allows viewing of full
> history is necessary. Next time I think I'll try simply running a script
> which rsync's .bash_history to some website
> (while true; do inotifywait -e CLOSE_WRITE ~/.bash_history; rsync
> ~/.bash_history server:public_html/bash_history.txt;
> done or something like that) instead.
>
> Zbyszek
>
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