RE: Xterm vs Terminal.app
RE: Xterm vs Terminal.app
- Subject: RE: Xterm vs Terminal.app
- From: "Woodford, Paul" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:58:29 -0500
- Thread-topic: Xterm vs Terminal.app
> Romain Kang wrote:
>
> Because of their customizability, xterm and its kin (rxvt, eterm,
> etc.) appeal to power users.
Which is also true of unix in general....
> Work with UNIX pathnames or WWW URLs a lot?
In pre-OS X days, you were able to command-click on a URL in most programs (such as Better Telnet) and have it launch the program you had chosen to deal with that type of URL. I'm hoping that this type of functionality will be restored to OS X. It would be interesting if the functionality were extended to path names. Perhaps a control-click on a path name could bring up a menu that would allow you to cd, ls, or sudo rm -rf....
> Need to run 24 different sessions for a test or to monitor a pile
> of machines?
Terminal.app is able to save sets of terminal windows in a single configuration file.
> Better yet, what's good with Terminal.app that can't be done with xterm?
Personal aesthetic preferences, mostly. xterm looks generally ugly to me, and I haven't found any X fonts that I like as well as 9 pt Monaco or ProFont. (Suggestions of good X fonts are welcome, though; I still work a lot on Linux boxes.) Terminal.app in 10.2 seems to have messed up font spacing, though.
There are also a couple of Terminal.app features which I am not sure are present in xterm. One is the ability to split a window, and the other is the ability to re-wrap when you resize a window. I find the latter particularly useful when I do an ls -l on a directory that contains long filenames. I can maximize the window to fit the output of ls -l without wrapping, and then restore the original size.
As someone else mentioned, dragging a file or directory onto a Terminal.app window copies the path to the command line.
Paul
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