> The 4014 support is much more uncommon, but I do actually use it > occasionally[1]. > > The real issue is that people now expect X to come with xterm and that's > that. Removing xterm would be quite unfortunate, as it breaks people's > expectations of how the system works.
Okay, jeez... I think only time will show up whether We Need Change(tm) or not. > Let's please not emulate certain > popular Linux distribution's habits of replacing or removing > functionality and subsystems. On the past times it wasn't that bad after all (it was only approx 95% bad). But from now, judging by how rapidly illness progresses through the recent years - let's agree with this statement as well. > A clean UI does not imply clean code I was having a hard time trying to unseen this provocational passage. But in the end I actually succeded in convincing myself that anyone is alredy full of my bs religious software speeches. (In the most crucial moment an imagination came of Stallman speaking. So freaked out and the rest was pretty easy.) > though I do realize xterm is hairy Finally, here at last I got some matching point > it at least has history on its side Yeah, the long history of development at MIT where they always ended up creating disturbing monsters, like this one, as well as lisp, multics, X... okay, I'm silent. > Please see my wonderful screenshot of Tek mode in use Sincerely, great. Except for the Mac OS wind... Ahem. Martin, everything is great, but excuse me my tediousness - could you please chew over, why would one need tek support for displaying gnuplot's plot result. Can't I have the same result in say rxvt-unicode WITHOUT actually this feature present? (And you've plotted directly to the vte window, NOT the just a X window, right?) Regards, Hans.
