Re: Help understanding changed terminal behavior in Leopard?
Re: Help understanding changed terminal behavior in Leopard?
- Subject: Re: Help understanding changed terminal behavior in Leopard?
- From: Brandon Allbery <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:10:30 -0400
On 2008 Oct 17, at 18:02, George Peter Staplin wrote:
Quoted Mike Sliczniak <email@hidden>:
Terminal.app in Leopard is a much poorer terminal emulator in Leopard
than it was in Tiger for various reasons. Basically it added tabs
(perfectly useless due to the screen program) and took away the
horizontal spilt that worked with the alternate screen while breaking
many emulation features.
I've studied the xterm sources more than a few times, and there is a
lot going on there. I also submitted a patch that was accepted for
xterm years ago, so that it can be used as a widget in some programs
via the -into flag, such as Whimterm (a tabbed xterm for my Tk-based
Whim window manager).
I wrote an early version of the blinking-cursor patch. My take-home
was that not only is there a lot going on in there, but small changes
could have unforeseen effects in other parts of the emulator. (I
recall the sticky-focused-cursor thing from that early patch;
apparently nobody else could figure it out either....)
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brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] email@hidden
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] email@hidden
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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