On Sat, 2015-02-07 at 19:05 +1100, Tim Connors wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Feb 2015, Michele Bert wrote:

> > Il giorno 07/feb/2015, alle ore 06:42, Brian May 
> > <[email protected]> ha scritto:
> >
> > > On 7 February 2015 at 16:39, Tim Connors <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> Anyone heard of a way of splitting your terminal into 2 columns 
> > >> (newspaper
> > >> style columns) where your eg. 180x49 sized xterm then becomes an emulated
> > >> eg. 90x98 sized xterm?  Preferably supporting the full ansi escape
> > >> sequences.
> > >
> > > I think any of tmux, screen, emacs, etc, will do this...
> > Not emacs, neither screen as far as I know. Maybe tmux.
> >
> > Why such an interesting request! What's the purpose?
> 
> Too many output lines in a machine status health display.  Added a bunch
> more webservers yesterday that I want to be able to see!
> 
> Modern screens are wide enough, but the manufacturers are still too cheap
> to make vertical pixels.

How about a wide display rotated in both software and physically. A
large modern relatively high resolution TV should do a lot on that
score. Might also be a lot less trouble to research and set up and
configure. I seem to remember something about a utility to resize and
reorient the display on the screen, especially linked to multi-headed
display environments.

Regards,

Mark Trickett

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