Hi Scott, That's exactly what I've been doing, though currently with VMware Workstation on a Windows host. I have Fusion on my personal MBP but may have some issues putting a VM atop my Mac at work.
Given the Mac is built atop Unix and VO almost works with terminal though I'd really prefer to have a single OS solution, hence the query if anyone has found ways of optimising the VO/terminal experience. Thanks, Garry On 9/16/10, Scott Howell <scottn3...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
