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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:28:49 -0600
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From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Peter,

take a look at the scrdump.c program at
http://mirtchovski.com/p9/xscr/ -- it takes a snapshot of the screen,
resizes it and places it somewhere on that same screen. It can easily
be modified to take snapshots of windows and place them in other
windows. It's not far from being a "preview".

http://mirtchovski.com/p9/xscr/scrdump.gif

andrey

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Peter A. Cejchan <tyapca7@gmail.com> wrote:
> sorry, i dont understand. if i have >20 files open in acme (yes, i'm silly),
> and i want to see just two of them at once, my screen is spoilt by useless
> taglines, saying all the time all the same: Cut Paste Snarf Look etc....
> dont you perceive it as sucking??
> ++pac
>
>>
>> > No. your editor window would probably take up more room than acme's tag
>> > lines.
>