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OS X Good (Score:1)
About the only gripe I have is that the Terminal application sucks raw eggs as a terminal application. I haven't looked closely at what it thinks it's trying to do but it's not what I got used to-- 15 years ago on true VT100s and lookalikes. As a UNIX interface nothing beats a good text terminal, and the Terminal isn't (hopefully "isn't yet").
Note that I may be barking at the wrong tree: maybe it's the combination of Terminal and the shell that is sucky. But whatever it is, things like suspending your application simply don't work, and the terminal emulation seems flaky. I have a suspicion about this and it is that Terminal wasn't really designed as a terminal, it's a text display widget glued with bubble gum to shell(s), which isn't enough for a dynamic workbench that a proper text terminal is.
Yes, I do know there's rootless X11 and the true xterm (which works for me as a true text terminal), and OroborosX as the window manager. But I'm kind of hoping someone at Apple would fix Terminal since I'd like to have my Unicode and fonts, too.
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Re:OS X Good (Score:1)
Another observation: if you have your preferences set to "use this shell: " instead of "use default login for this user" the terminal seems incapable of changing the ownership of the device file! That is, if