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It's a neat toy, but is pretty much useless for real work when compared to apple's built-in terminal. Seems to not correctly support PS1s, at least in the case
by ralphleon 15y ago
It's a neat toy, but is pretty much useless for real work when compared to apple's built-in terminal. Seems to not correctly support PS1s, at least in the case of zsh. I'd be surprised by anyone that would actually pay $10 for this, seems like $1 would be a better price point for a toy app.
- batista 15y agoHow many actual toys (that cost like $1 to produce) cost lots more than $10, and you wouldn't think twice about buying them? How much is a Barbie Doll nowadays? Bitching about $10 reminds me of this Oatmeal strip: http://theoatmeal.com/blog/apps http://theoatmeal.com/blog/apps
- whateverer 15y agoWell, all it's saying is that people feel queasy about spending on Desktop Environment decor.
- Void_ 15y agoDepends on how you want to spend the 10 entertaiment dollars. Some people watch movies, some play World of Warcraft, some buy applications that emulate grandpa's computer. ;)
- batista 15y agoYou're calling me a grandpa?!!! I used those kinds of terminals, mid nineties in Uni...
- dfc 15y agoYou just used "real work" in the same sentence as "osx built in terminal"? Has Apple made a lot of fixes to terminal recently?
- pjscott 15y agoTo elaborate on this: iTerm2 is much better than Terminal.app, and free. It seems to be the default thing that everybody recommends, and for good reason. http://www.iterm2.com/ http://www.iterm2.com/
- aiscott 15y agoI recently downloaded iTerm2 because I had been hearing this. I can't for the life of me see why anyone thinks it is better than Terminal. It might just be my usage pattern, which is basically tmux. I was even briefly excited about the so called tmux integration of iTerm2, but it actually made a great tool worthless.
- Void_ 15y agoNow I'm interested. Why is it better? I use terminal only to navigate and run commands, no Vim or Emacs. How will iTerm make my life better?
- shaka881 15y agoIt doesn't randomly barf terminal control sequences into the top of your Emacs buffers, for one. ;) I've lost count of how many times I broke my build because of something like "]24;" being inserted into the head of my source files.
- dedward 15y agoaiscott: terminal.app got a decent boost in Lion.. prior to that it was pretty lacking for people used to your basic linux terminal even. iterm2 fixed that up around the sametime andgot traction, thats all. you are nt missing anything, go with what wjorks for yourself.
- rhubarbquid 15y agoI've used the osx terminal for "real work" every day for about 6 years now...
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