Interesting escape character; though I think backslash moves around too much for me personally. (I use a lot of different keyboards!)
I didn't think I was missing anything until I started really using it either! That's why I ask for screen features that people use that I don't; you generally don't know what you're missing until someone points it out. When I was younger I didn't think I was missing much using a heavily modified gEdit for coding; but now I use Vim and know the error of my ways!
I use splits all the time, mostly for running/monitoring build tasks, workers and test suites without either having to flick between windows/tabs or having to give up too much screen real-estate. Shows enough information so that you know it's working (or not!) without taking up too much space - plus I can zoom it easily with {prefix}z if I need to see more history at once and it's super simple to resize/rearrange/set up.
(I've yet to learn emacs - trying to get a decent grip on Vim first! I won't start a flame war by asking if it's worth it...)
On 15 Apr 2013, at 22:09, Victor Churchill <victorchurchill@???> wrote:
> I think this may come down to use cases and contexts. I have not made use of the split-screen feature in screen and not missed it really: this may be due to my desktop monitors at home being not huge (one 17", one 19") so if the space is split it's not /quite/ big enough; interestingly I have just been on a contract where everyone used 24 inch plus monitors and I was starting to feel that with the extra space it could be useful.
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> But also I tend to do a lot of work in an emacs session where it's very quick and easy to split and unsplit the screen. So I just run a number of full-screen bash prompt 'windows' and an emacs one with several direds and files (and often a shell as well) in it in separate sub-panels. ( Oh, and btw, I configured my escape character to be ctrl-backslash :-)
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