On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 09:32:43AM -0500, Trevor Curtis wrote: > I find using one window with a bunch of buffers really difficult to > use, and use dozens of gvim windows instead. I use 'screen', with typically one urxvt window per host I'm SSHed to, and a screen in each. What I find really helps with screen is a) the fingertip control rather than clicking (I use ` as my escape key), and b) choosing a pattern. For example, on my laptop, screen 8 is always my personal e-mail, screen 9 is always my work e-mail, screen 7 is always a root session. On other servers, 7 and higher are typically all root. On one of our development servers, 0 is work in the HTML area of the application, 1 is work in the library area, and 2 is at the root (for builds, config files, and version control). Knowing where I'm going every time I pick a window is a big help to keeping it all sane. Plus, if I want to see two at once, I simply launch a second terminal to that host and run 'screen -r -x' to share the session. (In fact, my shell profile always hooks me up to an existing screen or creates a new one.) > I find however that tabs in a web browser are indispensable. I have > no idea how IE users deal with having so many browser windows. My co-worker uses a three-rows-high Windows taskbar. And when I tell him to look at a URL, he'll typically just look around for a few seconds and pick the browser he's using the least at that point. Yikes. :)
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