On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Chris Wareham wrote:

> Apart from older hardware, window gives me the only thing I envy emacs
> users for - split screens showing different buffers. Running several
> vi sessions and a sh in one xterm means I can even cut and paste
> between them. Neat.

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Chris Wareham wrote:

> Apart from older hardware, window gives me the only thing I envy emacs
> users for - split screens showing different buffers. Running several
> vi sessions and a sh in one xterm means I can even cut and paste
> between them. Neat.

nvi (which is what NetBSD ships) already does this: try typing ":E".

Though, for some reason, it seems that the ":bg" command (background the
current screen) isn't documented in the man page. I should fix that, once
I get current building properly again....

cjs
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