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Re: Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?

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Post by nailer »

yangyang wrote: post #57
gaius wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CME.EXE is about backwards compatibility. New work should be done in PowerShell' which is quite clever (think Unix pipes with COM objects instead of plain text).

That's a shell, not a terminal emulator.

You can use Powershell as a tabbed terminal too.

Re: Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?

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Post by christefano »

iTerm for OS X is fantastic. I like the custom keyboard profiles, full screen mode and appearance niceties (like tab styles and being able to hide the scrollbar). An especially great feature is the multiple tab input mode. Not too long ago I ssh'd into 3 new servers for three separate clients and did essentially the same setup and security updates for about an hour. At the end, I was able to bill for 3 hours.

  http://iterm.sourceforge.net/
I also use Visor, a handy utility written by Nicholas Jitkoff (the creator of Quicksilver). It extends Apple's Terminal by giving it a heads-up display, making a terminal available in any program by simply hitting a keystroke. It doesn't work with Snow Leopard, though, and when I first upgraded I actually felt like one of my limbs was always asleep. Fortunately, there's a way to make it work:

  http://metaskills.net/2009/8/18/visor-terminal-on-snow-leopard
For one-off commands where I don't need to see any output (like killing or renicing processes), I use Quicksilver in command mode and use the "run command in shell" action. The latest version of Quicksilver works with Snow Leopard with very minor problems:

  http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-alchemy/downloads/list

Re: Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?

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Post by whalesalad »

erlanger wrote: post #14
jcromartie wrote: post #6

Terminal.app as of OS X 10.5 is my favorite terminal. I like to use rxvt under Cygwin.

I'm using 2.1 on 10.6...I think it's about the same as 2.0.

I definitely feel performance increases all over the place in 10.6. Particularly in Terminal.app... it's super snappy! Directory listings are instantaneous whereas before there seemed to be a slight little lag.

Note: I am using zsh with my term declared as xterm.

Re: Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?

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Post by randallsquared »

pyre wrote: post #37
randallsquared wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used iTerm before Leopard, but it crashed at least once a week, and sometimes it would just forget settings, and it used up an insane amount of resources if you left it open for a few days (and shutting down all my ssh sessions and restarting them is not my idea of a good time, nor is trying to figure out where I put this server or that server in the tab list; I like them to stay at the same position so I don't hav…

> (and shutting down all my ssh sessions and restarting them is not my idea of a good time, nor is trying to figure out where I put this server or that server in the tab list; I like them to stay at the same position so I don't have to consciously think about that). Try GNU screen or tmux.

I use screen on my servers to avoid losing history and for running non-daemons, but I find it convenient to have "physical" tabs to remind me of where I am.

Re: Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?

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Post by yangyang »

nailer wrote: post #61
yangyang wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a shell, not a terminal emulator.

You can use Powershell as a tabbed terminal too.

You're confusing shells and terminal emulators (if you can call them that under windows).

You can use the "Powershell ISE" thing as a tabbed "terminal", but Powershell itself will quite happily run under the windows console "terminal emulator".

Re: Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?

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Post by medgar123 »

barrkel wrote: post #33
shadytrees wrote: post #9

rxvt-unicode with its Perl API [1] and rather amazing list of Perl extensions [2] on Linux OSes, puttycyg on Cygwin. (I recommend puttycyg if you've been using rxvt on Cygwin. Being able to type Unicode characters is an amazingly exhilarating experience, especially if you're lonely.) [1]: http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/src/urx... [2]: http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html

I'm giving puttycyg a whirl. It uses different key codes than xterm - xterm does not default to VT220 keyboard, but puttycyg does. And both of these are different to rxvt. This primarily affects readline, and thus the bash shell. For example, xterm sends '\e[H' for Home by default, while puttycyg (and xterm in VT220 mode) sends '\e[1~' and rxvt sends '\e[7~'. I can configure some overrides in .inputrc, but sooner or…

The following PuTTY / PuTTYcyg setting may interest you:

Terminal -> Keyboard -> Change the sequences sent by -> The Home and End keys -> "rxvt"

Re: Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?

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Post by nsm »

guicifuentes wrote: post #60
apu wrote: post #35

konsole. It's so much better than the gnome-terminal (monitor for silence/activity rules!). Actually, in recent years, it seems like gnome has gotten harder and harder to use for an expert in all aspects...I occasionally have to work on a gnome machine and it's pure hell trying to figure out how to get simple stuff to work. Of course, perhaps this is their goal in any case: target n00bs and grandmas to increase marke…

In Konsole you can split the window a là Emacs or Vim buffers, which is pretty handy always. The special keys works, not like F1 in gnome-terminal which opens the help. How many times do you switch between terminals because you need to copy something or whatever? That's over with Konsole

konsole is great for long term work, and yakuake is better for some one time command!
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