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Re: Cathode: A terminal app for mac that looks really cool

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Post by batista »

Void_ wrote: post #44
batista wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many actual toys (that cost like $1 to produce) cost lots more than $10, and you wouldn't think twice about buying them? How much is a Barbie Doll nowadays? Bitching about $10 reminds me of this Oatmeal strip: http://theoatmeal.com/blog/apps

Depends on how you want to spend the 10 entertaiment dollars. Some people watch movies, some play World of Warcraft, some buy applications that emulate grandpa's computer. ;)

You're calling me a grandpa?!!!

I used those kinds of terminals, mid nineties in Uni...

Re: Cathode: A terminal app for mac that looks really cool

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Post by batista »

rhubarbquid wrote: post #34
dfc wrote: post #22

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You just used "real work" in the same sentence as "osx built in terminal"? Has Apple made a lot of fixes to terminal recently?

I've used the osx terminal for "real work" every day for about 6 years now...

I think the whole differences are in some edge cases (though for some those cases could be their bread and butter), like escape codes handling, advanced ncurses stuff, etc etc.

Re: Cathode: A terminal app for mac that looks really cool

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Post by ralphleon »

dfc wrote: post #22
ralphleon wrote: post #7

It's a neat toy, but is pretty much useless for real work when compared to apple's built-in terminal. Seems to not correctly support PS1s, at least in the case of zsh. I'd be surprised by anyone that would actually pay $10 for this, seems like $1 would be a better price point for a toy app.

You just used "real work" in the same sentence as "osx built in terminal"? Has Apple made a lot of fixes to terminal recently?

The only thing that still annoys me is that you can't rename the tabs (without doing some silly work-around). I have 10 tabs in Terminal.app with "bash" written in them.

Re: Cathode: A terminal app for mac that looks really cool

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Post by un1xl0ser »

If you are a hardcore terminal user, then you will run into layout bugs at this stage. I'm interested enough in why this is the case, what exactly had to be written from scratch. There must be some terminal emulators out there under both GPL and BSD licenses.

I run into problems using mutt, vi and pagers, so I find myself pressing Control-L a lot. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't. This doesn't really bother me.

I enjoy being in this terminal. The effects at low volume and to taste can be soothing when you take a break and look at something, watching something compile. I don't like "perfect" text or printing that you can achieve with modern computers.

At the moment, I can't use this for e-mail (I bought it on Friday). I'll see how coding goes. Command line editing has so far been bearable.

Re: Cathode: A terminal app for mac that looks really cool

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Post by un1xl0ser »

zoul wrote: post #52
burgerbrain wrote: post #31

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I never understood why people want their terminal emulators to have tabs. Screen/tmux do it so much better...

What are the main advantages of screen/tmux in comparison with simple terminal tabs?

My tabs and state are on the REMOTE end of my connection. I never lose it.

Copy and paste is easy, no rat.

Re: Cathode: A terminal app for mac that looks really cool

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Post by laconian »

jbeatty wrote: post #37
burgerbrain wrote: post #31

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I never understood why people want their terminal emulators to have tabs. Screen/tmux do it so much better...

This. Clicking? No. Alt+Shift+Number? No. Good old-fashioned Ctrl-a ".

Command-left, command-right.
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