[Tutor] Looking for some direction

Alex Kleider akleider at sonic.net
Wed May 15 23:17:14 EDT 2019


On 2019-05-12 00:59, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
> On 12/05/2019 00:24, David L Neil wrote:
> 
>> "3 consoles": what is the purpose of each?
>> (my first reaction stemmed from many editors including a built-in 
>> console)
> 
> One for vim,
> One for the Python interpreter
> One for an OS shell used for running/testing the app plus any
> miscellaneous Unixy type things I need to do (sed/grep/awk/git etc).
> 
> I'll usually also have a web browser for reading
> documentation if necessary, although that's mostly
> done in the interpreter using dir()/help().
> 
> Alt-Tab and the X cut 'n paste mechanism provides
> enough integration between windows.

I tried this (Ubuntu 18.4) and Alt-Tab cycles between terminal and 
browser but I can't make it cycle from one terminal to another. How do 
you do that?

Alex


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