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Similar project is cool-retro-term [1] although I think the defaults are a little over the top. [1] https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term https://gith

Similar project is cool-retro-term [1] although I think the defaults are a little over the top. [1] https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

com2kid 8y ago
I love cool-retro-term! I'd say the defaults are way over the top and probably hurt the projects adoption. Once I turned everything down, it has become the most readable modern terminal I've ever used!
reaperducer 8y ago
cool-retro-term is my go-to terminal program for quick projects that don't need multiple panes. It freaks out the IT guys and our workspace consultants, which is a bonus. The only downside is that on macOS it crashes on quit. But since I'm quitting it anyway, no harm done.
- pushpop 8y ago
  Why would cool-retro-term “freak out” IT professionals any more than a typical terminal emulator? Does “freak out” have some additional definition I’m unaware of? Personally I found cool-retro-term lacked support for a few ANSI escape sequences I needed for tmux to work quite how I liked which prevented me using it as my daily $TERM. I’m sure with a bit of effort I could have gotten it working but it was an effort not work making when there’s literally dozens of other ${TERM}s I could use and the only thing in favour of cool-retro-term is novelty. I do really like how cool-retro-term is an expansion of the acronym CRT. Clever project naming.
  - reaperducer 8y ago
    Why would cool-retro-term “freak out” IT professionals any more than a typical terminal emulator? Because a typical terminal emulator doesn't make the brand new monitor they just installed look like it's broken.
    - pushpop 8y ago
      Cool-retro-term doesn’t make a brand new monitor look like it’s broken. The effect of CRT isn’t even remotely what an LCD looks like when it fails. So I’m guessing when you say “IT professionals freak out” what you actually mean is “idiot desktop support engineers who think anyone who uses the command line are ‘l33t h4xx0rz’”. In which case they’d have a hernia if they saw the kind of workspace a typical non-poser runs.
      - reaperducer 8y ago
        So I’m guessing when you say “IT professionals freak out” what you actually mean is “idiot desktop support engineers who think anyone who uses the command line are ‘l33t h4xx0rz’”. You guessed wrong, since they're used to seeing me use iTerm all over my other monitors.
        pushpop 8y ago
        That doesn’t prove my statement wrong. By the way, smooth move using an alternative account to circumvent the HN rule disallowing negative voting on replies. However I suggest next time you do this, you vary your timings a little. You make it obvious when every time my karma goes down is seconds after you comment.
        dang 8y ago
        We just had to warn you about personal attacks a few days ago. If you continue to cross into incivility on HN, we're going to end up having to ban you. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this? Your comment also broke the guideline that asks you not to complain about votes. If you think you see abuse on HN, email us at hn@ycombinator.com instead. I looked at the data on your comments upthread and found no evidence of abuse. Everyone who voted was a long-established user.
        pushpop 8y ago

Similar project is cool-retro-term [1] although I think the defaults are a little over the top. [1] https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

com2kid 8y ago

I love cool-retro-term! I'd say the defaults are way over the top and probably hurt the projects adoption. Once I turned everything down, it has become the most readable modern terminal I've ever used!

reaperducer 8y ago

cool-retro-term is my go-to terminal program for quick projects that don't need multiple panes. It freaks out the IT guys and our workspace consultants, which is a bonus. The only downside is that on macOS it crashes on quit. But since I'm quitting it anyway, no harm done.

pushpop 8y ago
Why would cool-retro-term “freak out” IT professionals any more than a typical terminal emulator? Does “freak out” have some additional definition I’m unaware of? Personally I found cool-retro-term lacked support for a few ANSI escape sequences I needed for tmux to work quite how I liked which prevented me using it as my daily $TERM. I’m sure with a bit of effort I could have gotten it working but it was an effort not work making when there’s literally dozens of other ${TERM}s I could use and the only thing in favour of cool-retro-term is novelty. I do really like how cool-retro-term is an expansion of the acronym CRT. Clever project naming.
- reaperducer 8y ago
  Why would cool-retro-term “freak out” IT professionals any more than a typical terminal emulator? Because a typical terminal emulator doesn't make the brand new monitor they just installed look like it's broken.
  - pushpop 8y ago
    Cool-retro-term doesn’t make a brand new monitor look like it’s broken. The effect of CRT isn’t even remotely what an LCD looks like when it fails. So I’m guessing when you say “IT professionals freak out” what you actually mean is “idiot desktop support engineers who think anyone who uses the command line are ‘l33t h4xx0rz’”. In which case they’d have a hernia if they saw the kind of workspace a typical non-poser runs.
    - reaperducer 8y ago
      So I’m guessing when you say “IT professionals freak out” what you actually mean is “idiot desktop support engineers who think anyone who uses the command line are ‘l33t h4xx0rz’”. You guessed wrong, since they're used to seeing me use iTerm all over my other monitors.
      - pushpop 8y ago
        That doesn’t prove my statement wrong. By the way, smooth move using an alternative account to circumvent the HN rule disallowing negative voting on replies. However I suggest next time you do this, you vary your timings a little. You make it obvious when every time my karma goes down is seconds after you comment.
        dang 8y ago
        We just had to warn you about personal attacks a few days ago. If you continue to cross into incivility on HN, we're going to end up having to ban you. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this? Your comment also broke the guideline that asks you not to complain about votes. If you think you see abuse on HN, email us at hn@ycombinator.com instead. I looked at the data on your comments upthread and found no evidence of abuse. Everyone who voted was a long-established user.
        pushpop 8y ago