Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
> "\e[1;5A": history-search-backward
> "\e[1;5B": history-search-forward
Perhaps I don't understand this 'bash' feature, but it doesn't
seem to work for me.
Start typing a command, press Ctrl-Up, and it finds the previous line in
the history that started like that.
I do lots of bash scripting including Windows/DOS commands, and I
can think of only one character cell app that ever gave me any
trouble from rxvt or xterm (whatever that app is -- I think a
Resource Kit app), I found a work-around and never needed it
again.
'net' is a troublesome command that's been mentioned, although it seems
to be ok for basic stuff. But I guess there might be still be a few DOS
fullscreen apps around. Turbo Pascal perhaps? But yeah, I'd sooner
implement tabs than worry about DOS apps. ;)
Isn't ANSI implementation required of virtual terminals? I know
that later DEC VTs, and HP terminals (bless their expensive
little scroll-back buffer hearts) had an "ANSI" mode.
To be honest, I didn't really know what I was talking about there.
Wouldn't surprise me though if MS had done their usual embrace&extend
trick on the ANSI stuff.
> I didn't know xterm actually had a UI for this. Do people find
> this useful?
I've used it on occasion when I needed to scroll back through two
debugging runs of a text-mode (character cell) app (or debugging
statements).
So your debug print macro or whatever would be switching screens?
What would be better for this and other problems, however, is a
feature that I would love: The ability to interactively, on the
fly change, the Title Bar/Task Bar Title to be clear on what each
Window is doing.
Can you explain the "interactive" bit a bit more. Do you mean clicking
on the window title and start typing away at it?
Andy
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