My opinion is that you use something like VMWare's Fusion and setup a simple Linux distro with Speakup and perform your shell-based activities there. On Sep 16, 2010, at 4:57 AM, Garry Turkington wrote:
> Hi, > > Every so often I try moving my terminal-related activities from either > a Windows or Linux box to the Mac. And each time I find the > interaction between VO and the Mac terminal sufficiently frustrating > that I give up for another 6 months. > > After just changing jobs I'm trying to rationalise my IT usage and > right now this is the biggest thing I'm not doing on the Mac. In > particular I need access a lot of remote Linux boxes, where I'm doing > various types of development, sysadmin, operational deployments and > support, all that good stuff. > > What I really look for in terms of access to such an environment is > two things in particular; accurate cursor tracking while in editors > (or indeed editing CLI strings) and automatic feedback after typing > shell commands. > > On the former I've used vim and nano remotely and the best I can get > is semi-accurate cursor tracking, though after cursoring around a bit > I often get spurious results, different parts of the window read, a > skew on the character under the cursor, that sort of thing. > > For the latter I find myself often doing a very long series of shell > commands which have short output strings and having to physically use > VO to review each time starts to be a timesink when I'm doing it > hundreds of times a day. > > I've also seen VO crash hard when doing terminal reviewing which also > doesn't help! > > So has anyone found particular terminal settings to alleviate any of > these issues? Or indeed found different approaches to my desires that > I'm possibly not considering. I know people here have had success > with things like Mac Vim (thanks to Esther for the tip) and I guess I > could use that remotely if I used one of the tools to remotely mount a > filesystem via SSH but given I need access a whole bunch of machines > it's likely not practical. > > Any thoughts very welcomed. > > Thanks, > Garry > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
