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I recently became enamored with the excellent app in Ubuntu GNU screen. I was really happy to see it installed on my Mac as well, but I can't split vertically... I guess I need to update it somehow. I tried mac ports, and brew, but I couldn't find anything. Has anyone done this successfully?

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Patch by Evan Meagher: http://old.evanmeagher.net/2010/12/patching-screen-with-vertical-split-in-os

Using these instructions and patch to compile screen I now have screen with vertical splitting capability in Mac OS X

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Give tmux a try. You will have to use mac ports but its pretty painless minus the build times. If you like what screen gives you tmux does it all and more and is actually being maintained and improved.

Tmux Info

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Tmux has no pasteboard access though. – Daniel Beck Jan 11 '11 at 17:07
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Try "split -v" or C-a |. Those are set with the current release of gnu-screen installed on Ubuntu (screen 4.00.03jw4). You might have luck with the MacOsX version as well.

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Nope! It wont work on macos10.6 nor 10.7 – Ali Dec 21 '11 at 14:37
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It works fine here. I followed the first description i found via google.

I used the screen version that came with my 10.6.3 Installation: Screen version 4.00.03 (FAU) 23-Oct-06. What version are you using?

Did you create at least two sessions before trying to split by pressing Ctrl-a+Shift-s

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You don't even have to create two sessions. You can split all day long if you want, and have multiple views of the same session. My issue is that I can't split vertically, like the version that comes preinstalled with Ubuntu. I'm trying to patch that in or something. – evantravers Jul 19 '10 at 13:29
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AFAIK you need at least screen-4.01. You can get it from their git repositories over at gnus's savannah. One of the newer dowloads here might also work, but I haven't tried.

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My suggestions (pick one):

  1. Try tmux. You should find it in MacPorts and Homebrew (don't even mention Fink), or you can compile it from source.
  2. You can compile the latest source code (hxxps://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=screen); it should be easy enough if you look at the README.
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