[comp.archives] [editors] Re: One user's editor wish list

Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM (03/14/91)

Archive-name: unix/terminal/screen/1991-03-13
Archive: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/screen-2.1.tar.Z [18.71.0.38]
Original-posting-by: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM
Original-subject: Re: One user's editor wish list
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)

>>>>> On 12 Mar 91 23:09:24 GMT, leech@vangogh.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan
>>>>> Leech) said:

J>     Probably the nicest thing about VMS I encountered was that it
J> detached and preserved jobs - including editor sessions - when the
J> network connection dropped.

With Oliver Laumann's "screen" program [from comp.sources.unix
archives, FTPable from e.g., uunet.uu.net] with my up to 10 windows I
can reconnect after a hang up, or disconnect, walk to a groovier
office, then reconnect.  Cursor stays just where it was, etc.
[Compiles on Sun/BSD.]
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