Re: (no subject)

[cga]

Michael Schroeder wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 12:13:29PM -0500, Raymond Page wrote:
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> > I'm glad to see some people are interested in putting forth ideas. 
> > I know a lot of people would benefit from having the window 
> > drawing code redone so that horizontal/vertical splits can be 
> > achieved in a manner akin to vim.
> >    
vertical splits is a great idea. Since my display is a 4x3 - 1400x1050
I don't even see a need for horizontal splits.  I'd love to have a way
I could split the screen in four though.. so I can display four logfiles
being updated with a key combo to switch from one to the other and
another one to zoom in the current window to full screen.

Something like the old IBM 3190 plasma display:

http://www.corestore.org/emuterm.htm

> You don't have to redo the window drawing code for this, it already
> supports it. It's just the user interface stuff and the resize
> handling that would need some work.
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> > Also mouse support would be a great feature.

The first I thing I look at when evaluating a new app is whether it's
usable w/o a mouse. The only use I have for a mouse is plugging
one in to disable the touchpad on my laptop.

One reason I'm moving away from the X gui's is that they're usually
difficult or impossible to navigate w/o a mouse.  Let's just hope that
adding or enhancing mouse support in gnu/screen won't result in
some functionality loss where keyboard navigation is concerned.

[..] 

> >
> How do the other list members feel about this?
>  
Skeptical.. On thing that makes gnu/screen stand out is its remarkable
ergonomy. With minimal customization you have every possible
navigation feature literally at your fingertips. With mouse-navigable
window managers you have it at arm's length instead...

Hopefully, this great piece of software can be configured without
mouse support.

cga