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The impact of a terminal
- burgerbrain 15y agoArticle author seems to confuses 'terminal emulator', 'terminal', and 'shell'. For example: "Funny enough, gnome-terminal does support some of the windows defaults such as CTRL+LeftArrow to move back one word." That is a (presumably) bash feature, not gnome-terminal. (And if bash is anything like zsh, it is capable of quite a bit more.) "The most important feature for me was not the alpha transparency or tabbed command prompts, but the ability to select across multiple lines." And that is a terminal emulator feature... Futhermore, the "windows console" (whatever that's actually called) has very little actually in common with actual 'terminal [emulator]/shell/[p]tty' stacks.
- novascorpio 15y agoburgerbrain - You're right in that I use many of these terms literally interchangably. You're right about ctrl+arrow being a bash feature (confirmed using xterm) - thanks! What I was trying to get across in the article is that the entire emulator/shell/tty is a package and people are quite particular about theirs.
- makecheck 15y agoIt is possible with xterm by the way, just in a different way (escape-f or escape-b).