joem@nos850.UUCP (Joe Muller) (04/11/91)
Here at nos850 we do not yet have the capabilities of using a windows enviroment such as X Windows, so I was wondering if there are any programs out there that will allow one to split the screen into 2 or 3 sections with a shell process running in each one. Ideally the user would be able to run a process in one half of the screen, and by some control sequence or tap of a function key, change their current shell to the other the half of the screen, and at the same time able to see the output of their previous process without it interfering with their current work. I'm sure that I'm not the first person to come up with this one, so surely there must be such a utility out there somewhere. Please mail all responses to me, and if there is sufficient interest I summarize and post. I can't FTP so kudos to anybody who can mail me the source. -Joseph Muller
Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM (04/12/91)
>>>>> On 11 Apr 91 14:02:22 GMT, joem@nos850.UUCP (Joe Muller) said:
Joe> Here at nos850 we do not yet have the capabilities of using a
Joe> windows enviroment such as X Windows, so I was wondering if there
Joe> are any programs out there that will allow one to split the
Joe> screen into 2 or 3 sections with a shell process running in each
Joe> one.
In GNU Emacs, (describe-function (quote shell))
shell:
Run an inferior shell, with I/O through buffer *shell*.
[...]
Adding this:
(defun named-shell (shell-name)
"Named shells"
(interactive "sShell name: ")
(cond ((get-buffer shell-name) (switch-to-buffer shell-name))
(t (shell) (rename-buffer shell-name))))
brings us up to your requirements. Follow the newsgroups gnu.emacs.*
and comp.emacs for how to obtain GNU Emacs, as you say you can't FTP.
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Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Naperville IL USA +1 708 979 6364burgess@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ken Burgess) (04/16/91)
If your running under HP-UX on an hp 9000 your in luck, there is a windowing system called TSM (for Terminal Session Manager) that does just what you want, available directly from HP. If your not on an HP machine, try contacting Structured Software Solutions 214-985-9901, they supply the product on various other platforms.