Ben Scott writes:
>
> I've seen a claim that "Tab" was introduced by the X Consortium
> because they found "Tom's" unprofessional, but I can't verify that.
>
> I don't know, but I'd speculate that the titular "tab" refers to
> what is today called a "title bar", which was an innovation when tw
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Bill Freeman wrote:
>> [1] twm, confusingly, does not do tabbed windows. ;-)
>
> IIRC the "t" stands for "Tom's", not "Tabbed"
It depends on who you ask. It can stand "Tom's" or "Tab". I've
seen man pages for either and both. My Debian box uses "Tab" in
twm(
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
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> Under the Unix philosophy, you want xterm(1), script(1), and a
> window manager that does tabbed windows.[1] :-)
>
> -- Ben
>
> [1] twm, confusingly, does not do tabbed windows. ;-)
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On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> Hey, all -- I've gotten quite used to gnome-terminal and konsole, and
> they both work, but I admit I have a little bit of iterm2 (for the Mac)
> envy -- e.g., being able to search back through the log to a specific
> timestamp. Handy, tha
