Oh. That sucks. Yeah, I read it multiple places, the last one being the comment at the bottom of this page. Apparently, not authoritative. ;)
http://scie.nti.st/2008/8/22/gnu-screen-with-vertical-split-support On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Micah Cowan<mi...@cowan.name> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael Terry wrote: >> I'm confused. I read online that vertically splitting a window was >> available as of 4.00.03, which is what my screen version claims to be, >> yet when I type ctrl-a | (which means hold down ctrl and a, then >> release and press shift and \ simultaneously), nothing happens. I also >> tried ctrl-A |, but no dice. What am I doing wrong? > > Your online source was wrong: as far as we're concerned, there is no > released version of screen with the vertical splits. > > However, current releases by Debian and its derivatives (4.0.3-xx), do > provide this feature. Perhaps that's what you read, or perhaps that > confused the online writer? > > - -- > Micah J. Cowan > Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. > Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq > http://micah.cowan.name/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkoqxGQACgkQ7M8hyUobTrFAGgCeNCeqb9sC6spDLXBi7YlkqVxa > YrwAmQEszFQ/cSN+FBZV3SVAjE3shjBM > =llOg > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users