How about Gnome's F1

Posted Aug 31, 2005 7:44 UTC (Wed) by philips (guest, #937)
In reply to: How about Gnome's F1 by kh
Parent article: Vim's newest features (Linux.com)

Try xterm.

I have tried `God only knows how many` "better" xterms and in the end came back to basics - xterm itself. Other terminals are so much to graphics/GUI/bells/whistles/etc what makes them poor utilities. xterm just works and need very very few changes to configuration. Was at time first and only terminal to properly support UTF-8. Properly support reverse video. Has no GUI - so nothing stands in a way of job. And has most comprehensive text selection around.

man xterm - it is infinite source of knowledge, only comparable to vim's :help ;-)

xterm + bash + vim is what I use all the time.

P.S. Thou if you are on RH/Fedora Core, RedHat ships screwed xterm.ad. Replace it with standard one from XFree86/X.Org.

How about Gnome's F1

Posted Sep 1, 2005 18:17 UTC (Thu) by tjw.org (guest, #20716) [Link]

Has no GUI - so nothing stands in a way of job

Although users are unaware, xterm actually has a GUI of sorts. Hold down CTRL while clicking on any of the 3 mouse buttons on the xterm. Obviously it doesn't stand in the way, but it's there.