On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 11:06, Ron Murray wrote:
> At Sat, 22 Nov 2003 13:04:16 +0000,
> Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>]
> > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 09:02:19AM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:25:24PM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 08:56:04PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > > > > multi-gnome-terminal has several important bugs and no
> > > > > reverse depends.
> > > > >
> > > > > Only issue is that we released it with woody.
> > > > >
> > > > > Are there any objections to removing it from sid/testing?
> > > >
> > > > Err, that's a bad argument, but I use it...
> > > >
> > > > Do you have any drop-in remplacement solution ? That may be a stupid
> > > > question, but if the package is dropped and it exists a remplacement
> > > > solution, a Replace + Provide dependency may be useful to users.
> > >
> > > What about plain old gnome-terminal? It supports tabs...
> >
> > It's had the gnome2 castration ("configuration is bad"), and is now
> > unusable.
>
> I'll go along with that. Its font selection, while fine for a word
> processor, makes it hard to tell monospace fonts from the rest (and
> there's no filter that I can find). And it doesn't seem to work so
> well with emacs (out of the box, it doesn't recognise M-x, but mgt
> does). This may be just me not trying to figure out the keybindings,
> of course, but then it wasn't necessary with mgt. gnome-terminal 1,
> without the tabs, worked fine; why the [EMAIL PROTECTED]&*() they felt the
> need
> to fiddle with it I do not know.That's odd, because M-x works finely out of the box for me. > As far as mgt bugs go, I posted a fix for one of the > important-level ones a month ago, but I don't see any progress on > it. I've not looked into the other bugs, but they may be fixable for > all I know. > > The only other terminal program with tabs that I know of is > powershell, which works and is, IMHO, better than gnome-terminal in > its current incarnation. I still prefer mgt though.
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