Re: Xterm vs Terminal.app
Re: Xterm vs Terminal.app
- Subject: Re: Xterm vs Terminal.app
- From: mark lacas <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:24:52 -0800
The one cool thing Terminal.app has is the opacity setting for the
window, so I can read things from below while typing in the terminal.
I can also watch other processes from below while working on a big
window.
ml
On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 12:19 PM, Romain Kang wrote:
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 07:24:55PM +0100, Ernst Mulder wrote:
I was wondering about that too. I thought I was probably missing some
very
good reason for using xterm. I'm all with Terminal.app myself. So why
do so
many people want to use xterm so much?
I've been wondering why suddenly so many people are so intent on
using
xterm. Xterm is really a very primitive application with a virtually
unusable default configuration.
Because of their customizability, xterm and its kin (rxvt, eterm,
etc.) appeal to power users.
Work with UNIX pathnames or WWW URLs a lot? Change the character
classes so that a double click selects and copies the whole entity,
and a middle mouse button click pastes it into another window, while
the Terminal.app user is still trying to click-drag select the exact
text he wants to copy.
(Remember, X11 was designed with a 3-button mouse model in mind.
Adapting it to the single-button Apple model is a bit kludgy, but
if you're an X11 vet, you've got a few spare 3-button mice sitting
around that you can plug in.)
Need to run 24 different sessions for a test or to monitor a pile
of machines? Set an XTerm application name with smart defaults
(tiny fonts, no scroll bar to save screen real estate), launch
the lot of them from a shell script, and run them in parallel.
And so on.
Finally, one minor item of religion that some old-timers (I guess
that's me) detest is the "Backspace sends DEL" dogma that Terminal.app
enforces. DEL is for punched tape users who need to rub out an error.
Someone tell me how to do these things with Terminal.app. Better
yet, what's good with Terminal.app that can't be done with xterm?
I'm all for using the right tools for the job at hand.
Romain Kang Disclaimer: I speak for myself
alone,
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