On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 08:48:35PM +0000, Peter Harrison wrote: > > Chad, > > xxxterm is in ports - at least I have it installed on my netbook and > although I can't remember how it got there, I never (ever) install > stuff that's not in ports.
Thanks for correcting that. I did not find it last time I looked, though I may have relied on a nonstandard ports tree search tool that sometimes (unexpectedly) fails to update its search database. It's good to hear xxxterm is available in ports. > > I installed for exactly the same reasons you're looking at it - fast > lean browser with good (vi-like) keybindings. I'm playing with it now. I find I need to rebind a lot of functionality to make it feel really vi-like, and some of the bindings I would like to use are not possible with the keybinding configuration capabilities of xxxterm as they are currently implemented. The maintainer has invited me to submit a patch; whether I do so will definitely depend on how much time I have to figure it all out. In the meantime, I'm checking to see how well I can get by using it as my primary browser for a while. > > Firefox runs like a dog on my atom processor, but I do still keep it > around for some stuff although compiling to keep their release schedule > is gradually turning me off. I don't blame you. > > First impressions of xxxterm are that it's very good. The keybinding is > quite as good as uzbl or vimperator on firefox, but it's live-able > with, and it seems to have fewer performance or configuration > downsides. > I find the keybindings of Uzbl and Pentadactyl better than those of xxxterm so far; I stopped using Vimperator in favor of Pentadactyl a while back, so I'm probably not qualified to comment on its current state. Did you mean to say "The keybinding is *not* quite as good . . ." or did you mean it is, as you wrote it here? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
