Hi,

I played with the Mac terminal last year and got some help from people 
here re its accessibility.  I'm now using my Mac a lot more and want to 
get the most out of the terminal so am requesting wisdom from others out 
there.

>From the command line I really  need the ability to do development locally 
and connect to remote machines via ssh.  I've found a few issues:

1. Any command that generates multi-line output seems to be truncated by 
the prompt or new line announcement.  Good example is "java -version".  I 
can improve this by setting a much shorter prompt in my shell but it's 
still very hit and miss.  Is there any way to configure things to more 
reliably read new information?  I've tried messing around with cursor and 
terminal types with no success that I can really point to.

2. Is there any way to review prior text on the screen or is interacting 
with the scroll area and moving the VO cursor up the way to do that?

3. When connecting to remote machines -- and to a lesser degree locally -- 
I need access to some ncurses applications but the cursor tracking with VO 
seems very unpredictable.  An example would be to open "lynx -show_cursor" 
on the remote box and try and say navigate around the CNN homepage.  Or 
use something like pine where cursoring around changes text highlights.

Anyone got advice as to how I can make all this work better for me?

Many thanks,
Garry


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Garry Turkington
garry.turking...@gmail.com

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