Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Interesting. I should check this out. I still like my WindowList and > having lots and lots and lots of gVim's and wterms, though (with a > 'mutt' wterm, a 'Terminal (Local)' wterm, a 'Terminal (Gusi)' wterm ...) > and of course: Mozilla (which I have a couple of windows of, with each > window having a group of related tabs).
Mmmm. I like screen for a number of reasons, like cutting down on the number of open windows. Since screen has its own window management, it cuts down on the alt-tabbing and screen clutter. You can have a wterm with a separate screen session for your remote terminals, if you want. <g> Oh, for all those people who are just finding out about screen now - screen gives you a really handy way of copying and pasting even without the mouse! > Talking about vim, I found out how to make it do what Pico/nano do > with Ctrl-J. That is, re-wrapping text to whatever page width is > set, so that reformatting snipped quoted text, or modified In Emacs terms, this is M-q, or M-x fill-paragraph. M-x auto-fill-mode is useful for mail. You can set the fill column with C-x f (C-u <number> C-x f to specify a particular column, C-u C-x f to specify the current column), which is set-fill-column. > paragraph. I found out about this on #Vim on OPN, and I'm missing Pine Yes, the editor channels are a very good place to hang out. > This reminds me of our BBSing days. Unfortunately the guy in Romania > can't pop up in your house and say hello. ;) That's true. So, hey, want to swap screens sometime? ;) -- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 4 BS CS Ateneo geekette interests: emacs, linux, wearables, teaching compsci, making games _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
