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From: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM
Subject: [editors] Re: One user's editor wish list
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Archive-name: unix/terminal/screen/1991-03-13
Archive: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/screen-2.1.tar.Z [18.71.0.38]
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Original-subject: Re: One user's editor wish list
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>>>>> On 12 Mar 91 23:09:24 GMT, leech@vangogh.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan
>>>>> Leech) said:

J>     Probably the nicest thing about VMS I encountered was that it
J> detached and preserved jobs - including editor sessions - when the
J> network connection dropped.

With Oliver Laumann's "screen" program [from comp.sources.unix
archives, FTPable from e.g., uunet.uu.net] with my up to 10 windows I
can reconnect after a hang up, or disconnect, walk to a groovier
office, then reconnect.  Cursor stays just where it was, etc.
[Compiles on Sun/BSD.]
-- 
Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM  Naperville IL USA  +1 708 979 6364
