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I'd like to achieve this effect in Linux. Essentially I'd like to have vim open on the left and have a command line on the right to perhaps tail an error log.

Ubuntu 14.04 on my desktop, but CentOS on most of the boxes I'm sshing into, though I doubt any of that matters.

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You can use the screen or tmux programs on the CentOS servers to do this.

For example - for screen -
After you login, you run screen (you may have to install it)

Then hit CTRL a and then CTRL | <-- that's a pipe
This will split the screen into 2
Then hit CTRL a and then CTRL tab to switch to the new section
Then hit CTRL a and then CTRL c to create a new session in the new section.

The end result should be sessions side by side

Reference - http://www.pixelbeat.org/lkdb/screen.html (screen hotkeys)

Alternatively, on your Ubuntu desktop, you could get a terminal program that can do screen splits. Terminator is one such terminal program, and you can split a screen by simply hitting CTRL+Shift+e

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