The TTY demystified (2008)
This isn't entirely relevant to the article, but I hope some shell/TTY expert might read this, and know the answer :)<p>Hypothetically, could a TTY, in combination with the help of a shell, be able to separate the stdin, stdout and stderr of every running program? By default the shell could do what we normally see, but then easily (with some kind of GUI control) let me pull a particular program's stdout/stderr out to a seperate window, including (if I stored it) all it's previous output, and redraw the current terminal removing that program's output.<p>I've always been tempted to do something like this, and I'm curious if there is any massive reasons it's simply not possible.