Quoting Jacob Ritorto <jacob.ritorto(a)gmail.com>:
srsly, this is why we have tmux. or even good old screen, in a pinch.
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man1/tmux.1?query=tm…
each program small and good at its one own thing.
If the "one thing" is "fix the broken design of another program"
it's often
a better idea to just fix the original program.
khm