Terminal: allow to split vertically and horizontally

[pulkomandy]

It would be great to have two shell sessions side by side or on top of each other in Terminal.

Not sure if we should allow tabs in each split, or only a global set of tabs, with splits inside the tabs.

[humdinger]

What's the big advantage compared to tiling two Terminal windows side-by-side or top-by-bottom? Besides a few saved pixels.

When I read the ticket title, I imagined you mean an in-window split like in Pe:

This OTOH, I'd find really nice. Like in the above screenshot, you could list a folder with "ll", then split the view, and have the prompt visible below. While you can scroll up and see the ll-output, you can type at the prompt without Terminal autoscrolling down to your prompt, as it normally does.

[humdinger]

Splitting the view in Pe editor

[pulkomandy]

Yes, that would be useful as well.

And yes, tiling windows may work, but the same argument can be made for using tabs inside Terminal. I think the advantage for me would be to open a temporary shell, run a few commands and close it, without having to resize my Terminal window (and resizing all other tabs in the process)