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High Readability for your Terminal.app

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Re: High Readability for your Terminal.app

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Post by marcher »

graywh wrote: post #9

No self-respecting terminal user should suffer with Terminal.app--xterm supports more colors and more features. Even iTerm is a better alternative.

Terminal.app isn't so bad once you install TerminalColours and MouseTerm. xterm can be difficult to configure, it doesn't do tabs, and copying and pasting follow X11 rules in it. I prefer native applications wherever possible.

iTerm on the other hand is slow and bug-ridden. The last thing I want when using a terminal is for it to render choppily and crash on me.

Re: High Readability for your Terminal.app

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Post by thomasmallen »

I don't know why people are putting this sort of work on GitHub instead of dotfiles. GitHub takes a while to load, and there are two wasted clicks here (the file in question, then "Raw"). At the very least he could have linked directly to the raw file.

I keep my Vim stuff on FreeHg, but that's because we're talking about possibly hundreds of files when you consider the color schemes, doc files, plugins, etc. More importantly, it's awesome to be able to quickly pull in all of my vim stuff onto any machine with Hg and I needed this setup to easily sync between work, the server, and home.

Re: High Readability for your Terminal.app

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Post by Harkins »

thomasmallen wrote: post #12

I don't know why people are putting this sort of work on GitHub instead of dotfiles. GitHub takes a while to load, and there are two wasted clicks here (the file in question, then "Raw"). At the very least he could have linked directly to the raw file. I keep my Vim stuff on FreeHg, but that's because we're talking about possibly hundreds of files when you consider the color schemes, doc files, plugins, etc. More imp…

Because the dotfiles homepage says "Latest files uploaded" and lists dates that are three years old. If it's not dead, it's apparently working to give that impression.

Re: High Readability for your Terminal.app

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Post by thomasmallen »

Harkins wrote: post #13
thomasmallen wrote: post #12

I don't know why people are putting this sort of work on GitHub instead of dotfiles. GitHub takes a while to load, and there are two wasted clicks here (the file in question, then "Raw"). At the very least he could have linked directly to the raw file. I keep my Vim stuff on FreeHg, but that's because we're talking about possibly hundreds of files when you consider the color schemes, doc files, plugins, etc. More imp…

Because the dotfiles homepage says "Latest files uploaded" and lists dates that are three years old. If it's not dead, it's apparently working to give that impression.

You're looking at dotfiles.com, but I was referring to dotfiles.org.

Re: High Readability for your Terminal.app

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Post by nickb »

Just installed it and found it way too harsh on my eyes. I have no eyesight problems so a background with a harsh contrast like that does more bad than good.

I've settled on Novel theme (black on creme background; which is similar to HN background) and I find it the best when my eyes are tired. I also use Panic Sans font. I've tried all kinds of fonts (including Consolas) and Panic Sans is absolutely the best one I've tried. Definitely give Panic Sans a try: http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/04/in_love_with_a_fo...

Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/187757062/Panic_Sans.dfont.zip

Re: High Readability for your Terminal.app

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Post by twampss »

marcher wrote: post #11
graywh wrote: post #9

No self-respecting terminal user should suffer with Terminal.app--xterm supports more colors and more features. Even iTerm is a better alternative.

Terminal.app isn't so bad once you install TerminalColours and MouseTerm. xterm can be difficult to configure, it doesn't do tabs, and copying and pasting follow X11 rules in it. I prefer native applications wherever possible. iTerm on the other hand is slow and bug-ridden. The last thing I want when using a terminal is for it to render choppily and crash on me.

MouseTerm is great! I've been looking for something like this for a while...

Thank you!

Re: High Readability for your Terminal.app

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Post by ashmaurya »

felideon wrote: post #8
yan wrote: post #6

Not very impressive. I'll take the "Pro" theme with size 13 font any day over this.

I agree. I'll have to try it with Consolas to see the difference, but the default "Homebrew" theme is pretty good for me as well.

Don't care for Consolas but the blue/yellow color scheme is acceptable with Monaco.
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