I hadn't thought of that. DVTM would work nicely I think. Still a neat idea for a patch imo. Maybe I'll take a swing at it and learn a thing or two.
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Daniel Kowalski <kowal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/07/2011 06:04 PM, Justin Pogue wrote: >> At work, I typically have a terminal doing something like "while true; >> do ls -l /var/cores && sleep 10 && clear; done", and it bugs me that >> I'm taking up so much screen space with things like that when all I >> need to be able to see is whether or not there are any files being >> created there. All I need is 2 or 3 lines of output. >> >> What would be awesome would be the ability to adjust the height of a >> specific window in the stack and have all of the other windows just >> fill the available space. I am not much of a programmer outside of >> the occasional butchering of perl for the purposes of automating >> things I don't really understand. If this would be easy to do and >> someone is bored and/or feels like being a generally awesome guy, I >> would be forever in your debt. If this already exists or if there are >> better solutions, I'm open to that too. >> >> regards, >> >> justin >> > > I use screen for that: open term, launch screen, split window (C-a S), > resize upper (or lower) half to desired height (C-a :resize 10), run > your commands, switch to other half (C-a tab), launch new shell (C-a C-c). > > You now have 10-line 'status' window with still functional terminal below. > > > -- > > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments >
