Garry, although VO certainly works better with the Terminal than it has and does a great job for the limited things I need it for, I have not found it to be quite the entire replacement for Speakup and the shell. I hope someone does have other suggestions. On Sep 16, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Garry Turkington wrote:
> 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. > -- 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.
