On 07Oct2009 21:59, Kyle Wheeler <kyle-m...@memoryhole.net> wrote: | On Wednesday, October 7 at 09:01 PM, quoth Cooper T53: | >Which terminal do you prefer for mutt? | | I *prefer* xterm-unicode, but I typically use Apple's Terminal.app.
I prefer rxvt-unicode, but I typically use Apple's Terminal.app. | >And why? | | Xterm is blazing fast, full-featured, and very compatible with just | about everything. Apple's Terminal.app, on the other hand, (when | sufficiently customized to resemble Xterm) is less of a pain on OSX, | has a nicer scroll bar, and works better with the copy/paste stuff. It | used to be painfully slow, but it's gotten much better. rxvt-unicode is pretty flexible about looking for other fonts if the default font lacks coverage for certain characters and lets you run a urxvtd to manage all the terminal windows, and use urxvtc to request a fresh terminal; lighter on the process list. I confess I've never used xterm-unicode; I have found xterm itself very fast, much faster that iTerm and maybe Terminal even under X11 on a Mac. So's rxvt-unicode on a Mac. I'd like to be using iTerm instead of Terminal (better tab support, tab labelling, cut/paste lets me skip the annoying cmd-C step). But iTerm has big performance issues with lots of (even several) terminals or long terminal histories; I suspect some of this may be memory footprint and the lack of RAM in this MacBook Air - it gets very stupid when it starts to page. | >And while I am at it, dark background or light background? | | Dark. Dark. -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Mac OS X. Because making Unix user-friendly is easier than debugging Windows. - Mike Dawson, Macintosh Systems Administrator and Consultation. mdaw...@mac.com http://herowars.onestop.net
