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Re: Two column layout
From: |
Chris Jones |
Subject: |
Re: Two column layout |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:40:34 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:30:53AM EST, Rhys Ulerich wrote:
> Is it possible to have two panes hold a single window (much like a two
> column layout in a magazine)?
> It'd be sweet to have
> A|D
> B|E
> C|F
> where A, B, C, D, E, F are sequential lines from, say, a text editor
> and | is a screen split. Especially on a wide-but-not-tall monitor.
Not sure about your use case, but if I understand correctly, you can
also do this in Vim:
$ vim file.txt
CTRL-W v split window ‘vertically’
CTRL-F page down right half-window one screen worth
:set scrollbind
CTRL-W h cursor to left half-window
:set scrollbind bind both half-windows' scrolling
You can now use the usual page, half-page, etc. scrollling keyboard
actions to scroll your text.
See...
:h scb
:h tw
:h CTRL-W
The last two can be combined to tweak the width of your columns and your
half-windows.
You could also take a peek at the ‘pr’ command:
$ pr -3 -w 300 infile.txt | less
If your display has 260+ columns and your input file 80 characters
lines, this should present you with roughly formatted 3-column output.
CJ