> Frankly, it bothers me greatly that the terminal would have any idea whatsoever what text editor I am running or that I am running a text editor at all. I'm

> Frankly, it bothers me greatly that the terminal would have any idea whatsoever what text editor I am running or that I am running a text editor at all. I'm not sure what you mean by this. Terminal.app doesn't know that you're running a text editor. It does know that you're running a process called 'vim', which is kind of magic, but not too much (ps has always been able to show what processes are attached to a given tty, for example). If you're referring to the parent comment's "full mouse support for apps like vim", they just mean it supports "mouse reporting" control sequences, which date back to xterm. If anything, Terminal.app is late to support this (only in the latest release, whereas alternatives like iTerm have supported it for ages). > It bothers me even more to think that I could copy or paste text and get results that were anything other than those characters ... Well, the terminal has to interpret escape sequences for colors and such in order to display them, so why shouldn't it also preserve that metadata when copying and pasting? Like any other rich text copy+paste, it will only be kept if you paste into a rich text field; discarded if you paste into a plaintext field. That said, there are a few 'odd' things Terminal.app supports: e.g. printf '\e[2t' to minimize the window. (This also comes from xterm.)