Re: multiple child windows for screen

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Chris Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> ¹ The above does it remotely, targeting an already-running screen
>   session, but naturally, you could stick the same commands in your
>   ~/.screenrc, like so:
>
>   | screen -S sockname
>   | split
>   | split -v
>   | focus down
>   | split -v
>
>   .. and you will have four sub-windows immediately after you fire up
>   screen

If you do this, detaching and reattaching will make you lose your
splits. The "layout" command circumvents this:

| layout new
| split
| split -v
etc.