[ILUG] Re:

[John P. Looney]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:52:18PM +0100, Niall O Broin mentioned:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:32:09AM +0100, Chris Higgins wrote:
> 
> > [SNIP]
> >        Unlike other paging programs, most is capable of  display­
> >        ing  an arbitrary number of windows as long as each window
> >        occupies at least two screen lines.  Each window may  con­
> >        tain the same file or a different file.  In addition, each
> >        window has its own mode.  For example, one window may dis­
> >        play  a  file  with its lines wrapped while another may be
> >        truncating the lines.  Windows may be `locked' together in
> >        the  sense  that if one of the locked windows scrolls, all
> >        locked windows will  scroll. 
> > [SNIP]
> > 
> > Try do that in less :)
> 
> Indeed, but tell me that you can remember how to do it on the one occasion
> per year that you actually want to do it. Reminds me of emacs, really :-)

 mad | big | command vim - 

 then "spl" to split, and ^W to move around the multiple windows. And
Xemacs can split horizontally *and* vertically!

Kate

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