From: John P. Looney (john at domain antefacto.com)
Date: Mon 27 Aug 2001 - 09:13:06 IST
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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to go where you will, even to Mordor, Saruman, if you desire. "
-- Gandalf, paraphrasing the choice between Free and Non-free software
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