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[dawang10]

Is there any easy way to show map at the right side rather than on the top, since most screens are 16:9 or 4:3

[dawang10]

alternatively, to split the window horizontally

[PowerGod]

#split works only with map on top

if you really want the map on the side you should look at other solutions, like using tmux to show 2 terminals side by side, one of them runs tt++ with a trigger to save map to file, and the second terminal just constantly read that file.

[dawang10]

Yes, I checked the whole forum. 2 terminals is a way but only on tintin++

Many thanks.

[Slysven]

The way it is coded relies (I think) on being able to confine the scrolling area to only part of the range of lines that make up the screen - which is something that most terminal emulators (if they actually DO emulate a real terminal - some don't, they emulate other emulators...!) support. Splitting the screen into a protected and an unprotected area - and putting the map into the "protected" area that should not scroll - ought to be possible for a decent emulator but is less commonly available.

Now this does sound like a thing that could be done if we brought in use of the *nix ncurses library - which is basically the goto library to build GUI type system in a CLI system - and it is incidentally maintained by the same person who looks after the venerable xterm so they work well together...