How to get vertical split of terminal in Mac, to execute different actions?

Question

Every once in a while I see people using what looks like terminal in their mac, except that in what seems to be 1 window they have a vertical 'split.' On one side of the split, they have emacs or something, and in the other they have something else.

How is this possible, to How can I have two independent things happening at once in the same terminal window, divided by a vertical split? It looks a lot like split pane, but split pane is a horizontal split and the actions are mirrored in the panes.

Answer 1

Possibly GNU Screen with vertical split?

It should already be installed on your Mac, type screen in the terminal.

You can also do this with emacs by itself.

Answer 2

To split this in emacs use ctrl + x, b (control and x together, then b) to switch to another buffer that is already open. You can also click on the filename at the bottom to switch to another buffer.

Here is a list of shortcuts to resize windows and do much more with emacs link text

Answer 3

After you vertically split on screen, you can type screen to create new instance. Or you can also use iTerm or iTerm2 which can use vertical split. See this link for splitted panes. www.iterm2.com/#/section/features/split_panes

Answer 4

How is this possible, to have two independent things happening at once in the same terminal window, divided by a vertical split?

You could say it's basically just running two programs within the same window.

In OS X Snow Leopard a horizontal split is built-in, but that indeed is a mirroring function. See also Mac OS X Snow Leopard - split Terminal windows.