Hans Fugal wrote: > Jonathan Duncan wrote: >> On 12 Feb 2008, at 09:10, Hans Fugal wrote: >> >>> Neat. Thanks for sharing. In the meantime I've been trying the other >>> terminals with strange names, and I've found that TERM=dtterm actually >>> works quite well. Aptitude, mutt, and screen are all happy. >>> >> Perhaps this is a side note. While OS X Term is a decent app, I use >> iTerm and have quite enjoyed it. The colors also seem to work well in >> it along with other nice features. > > Before leopard I used iTerm (I'm addicted to tabs). It worked well most > of the time but I was experiencing a very frustrating bug from time to > time. At random times (always the most inconvenient moments) input to > ncurses programs (mutt, vim, screen - there goes productivity) was > completely screwed up. Backspace, =, ;, and other apparently unrelated > keys would become other characters. This would continue for usually at > least 10 minutes, sometimes much longer, and against all logic it had > nothing to do with restarting iTerm, or even restarting or sleeping the > computer. My only recourse was to bring up Terminal.app (which worked > fine) or not use a terminal for a time and come back later and hope it > would work. > > Naturally, with a bug like that (no progress was ever made in fixing it > - I'm sure they just think I'm nuts), I was quite thrilled when > leopard's terminal met my needs enough to replace it.
Well I think you must be nuts too, since I've used iTerm continuously for several years now and never have seen that. :) On the other hand, iTerm is very slow, especially after using it for a couple of hours generating scroll-back history. Leopard's Terminal.app is nicer now than it used to be, but the default page-up, page-down handling still makes it a no go for me. Scrollback in a terminal emulator should be shift-pageup and shift-pagedown, leaving the normal keystrokes for the app to process. There's nothing quite as annoying as editing some large file in an editor on terminal.app, and wanting to go up a page, only to have it scroll the buffer instead. > > -- Michael Torrie Assistant CSR, System Administrator Chemistry and Biochemistry Department Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 +1.801.422.5771 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
