chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) (11/30/90)
[ Followups to comp.misc ] According to onward@fsg.UUCP (Onward Lam): >How about a discussion on Editors and productivity (NO, not the >vi vs. emacs religious debate), but more like size of terminals >(ie. lines x columns), or windows/xterms vs ascii terminals. I use 25x80 exclusively, but it's either SCO's "mscreen" program with our home-grown multi-screen ANSI terminal emulation program, or KA9Q over an Ethernet, hacked for multi-screen ANSI emulation. As a result, I have at least four sessions available simulaneously, and switching among them is as easy as <Alt-Fx>. I find this arrangement close to ideal for development and debugging, since I can almost literally do four things at once. As to line count: I prefer four screens of 80x25 to fewer screens with more characters, since I find tiny characters distractingly difficult to read. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip> "I've been cranky ever since my comp.unix.wizards was removed by that evil Chip Salzenberg." -- John F. Haugh II