Re: [dev] tcvt: very useful for seeing more at once

From: Rudy Dellomas (dther) <"Rudy>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 20:36:20 +1000

On 21/10/15 06:23AM, Greg Reagle wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021, at 9:56 PM, Rudy Dellomas (dther) wrote:
> > [...]
> > `tmux new ';' splitw -h man dwm`
>
> No, this does not do what tcvt does. Have you actually tried it? Nor does the MANWIDTH variable.
>

You're right, sorry, my mistake. I realised after sending that that
`tcvt` creates one long terminal as opposed to 4 terminal panes. That's
useful behaviour that I'm surprised there isn't a tmux
command for. I could see myself using it to monitor logs and such.

I tried to whip something up using `copy-mode`, which allows the reading
of another pane's history using using the flags `-t` and `-s`. I
couldn't get it to work, but I'm sure it would be possible, if not easy,
to make some kind of special .tmuxrc. Using tmux rather than inventing a
new terminal emulator would be worth it (in my opinion) in preventing
strange printing behaviour.
Received on Fri Oct 15 2021 - 12:36:20 CEST