On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Kent Fredric <[email protected]> wrote:
> 3. URxvt - lightweight, but fast and featureful terminal that people
> who love Xterm are likely to love also.

I don't love Xterm, I'm used to Gnome Terminal ... but ...

>              - Dynamic "dual screen" scrolling mechanism that solves
> that pesky "I ran a program with my window at 20 px wide, and I
> resized my window, but the text stayed wrapped and I had to
> re-run-the-program" issue. ( Really, its magical )

That was nice, and one of the Gnome Terminals failings, especially
when combined with a tiling WM that resizes things frequently.

>             - Bizarrely customizable.

Dynamic resizing of the text is important for me ... and that doesn't
seem to be available yet in the main code itself ... but
https://github.com/noah/urxvt-font provides a perl script that does
the resizing for you *cough* nice approach, I think ...

-jim
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