not to be totally pedantic, but rotating your monitor is pretty easy these days (from a software POV). see xrandr(1). i had a 24" LCD rotated at my last work-desk and i could hold a ridiculously long terminal window in it. and i did. even though i use a huge font, it was still >100 lines long and i had room for another normal 25-liner underneath it (and some applets next to both of them, since i like my terminals in 80-char widths regardless of length).
i think the hacks based on screen(1) are likely to be nifty but not functional in some way or another for the proposed workload. or really anything that TERM=dumb couldn't handle. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:04, Rogan Creswick <cresw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Keith Lofstrom <kei...@kl-ic.com> wrote: >> >> No, I want a general purpose text terminal. The vim capability is >> OK, but ls -l, email, less, man pages, command line error output, >> and many other text apps can run on for pages. Yes, I can capture >> the session to a file and look at that in vim (or with less, in >> multiple windows), but it is a poor substitute, especially given that >> modern screens are not so tall and bunches of characters wide. >> > > I wonder if this could be done with screen -- could you run a screen > session in the "active" terminal, then view that session from another > terminal, and set it to display the scrollback content from the > "active" terminal? (some minor exploration hasn't confirmed that this > is possible... but it sure seems like it should work.) > > Screen can also log to a file, and that could be processed by a simple > tail / cat-like app to show all but the last n-lines, to correspond to > the other terminal's height. > > --Rogan > > > >> Keith >> >> -- >> Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 >> KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" >> Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
