Screen is your friend (was Re: [techtalk] Mutt functionality)

[David Merrill]

On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 11:15:24AM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 11:27:53AM -0700, Akkana wrote:
> > I usually just run another copy of mutt in a different shell window.
> > Or if I'm not in X (running on the console or over a telnet line),
> > I ctrl-Z to suspend the mutt process, use more or vi or another mutt
> > or whatever is easiest to view the text I want to copy, quit that
> > then fg back into mutt.  
> 
> A tailor made solution for this kind of thing is the 'screen' utility.
> 
> You have your one console or remote login, type screen, and you're presented
> with a normal prompt. Type 'mutt', you're in mutt.
> 
> Now the screen magic.
> Press Ctrl-a and then c, and you're presented with a new prompt. Type 'vi'
> you're in vi. Press Ctrl-a and then 0 - back to mutt. Ctrl-a 1, back to vi.

Very cool. The kde virtual terminal (konsole?) allows something very
similar, but the various terminals show as tabs on the bottom of the
window. Quite slick.

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