Splitting with GNU screen

Screen (http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/) is super powerful. I won't go into why you should use screen, but if you ever spend any amount of time at the command line you should definitely check it out.

One cool feature is to be able to split the screen and have two, or more, "tabs" visible at one time. It gives you the chance to use all of those widescreen pixels you been dying to try out.

To split:

(vertical split)
C-a |

(horizontal split)
C-a S

Move between areas:
C-a Tab

Close an area:
C-a X

Try it out.