[Noisebridge-discuss] Duplicating another area of the screen inosx?

Lee Sonko lee at lee.org
Tue Dec 22 03:27:40 UTC 2009


Try Christie's idea    VNC + allow loopback connections (that's the term in
UltraVNC)

It seemed to work on my PC.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: noisebridge-discuss-bounces at lists.noisebridge.net 
> [mailto:noisebridge-discuss-bounces at lists.noisebridge.net] On 
> Behalf Of Sai Emrys
> Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 6:21 PM
> To: Christie Dudley
> Cc: NoiseBridge Discuss
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Duplicating another area 
> of the screen inosx?
> 
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Christie Dudley 
> <longobord at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think I'd do a vnc of the projected image on your personal laptop
> 
> It's not two computers, but just my laptop in dual-monitor 
> mode. So I don't think VNC would work here.
> 
> 
> Another method I just thought of: if I can get a text editor 
> (that's not vim or emacs) to open the same file in two 
> different windows, and keep both windows updated, that would work.
> 
> Or for that matter, if I can get one to have a vertical split 
> screen on the same file, I can make it two screens wide, 
> which also would work just fine.
> 
> I tried fooling TextMate into opening the same file twice 
> (with a symlink), but its sync behavior in that situation is 
> kinda weird...
> only autosyncs the first character of a line. Requires 
> unfocus/refocus to sync the rest, which would mean I have to 
> type blind and then click around to see anything... not good. 
> It doesn't support split window mode.
> 
> JEdit does do vertical split, so is the current best solution.
> However, it's kinda unwieldy here, since it's really more 
> intended to be for coding than for text display / edit per se 
> - e.g. it has no ability to do rich text, easy font scaling, etc.
> 
> Surely there are non-IDE-type text editors that do vertical splitting?
> 
> - Sai
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