Re: Xterm vs Terminal.app
Re: Xterm vs Terminal.app
- Subject: Re: Xterm vs Terminal.app
- From: Jacques <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:09:00 -0600
A nice feature of xterms is middle button click to paste. Why suddenlly
all you
need to do is highlight and click - look Ma, one hand!
X is not antiquated as one might think. eterms are nice and
customizable too.
try it, you may like it.
On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 02:19 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.)
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