On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius <svartma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> if the task is 'waste a bunch of screen real estate' then no, ranger >> is a far better choice >> > The current combination of a shell and a terminal emulator is > horrible. I've found myself doing stuff like: > > exec </dev/tty1 >/dev/tty2 2>/dev/tty1 > #optionally stty -echo > while read > do clear > $REPLY > done > > Why in Mímir's name do error messages and output get written to where > my input is echoed? > >
This could to be an interesting idea. I'm thinking 3 column terminal (stdin, stdout, stderr), as well as remote control...
