Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:29:57PM -0400, Christopher Wright wrote:
The Windows terminal emulator sucks. This is not subject to debate.
What terminal emulator?
This might be a bit of a nitpick, but Windows doesn't try to emulate a
terminal (not in the OS anyway; there are hundreds of third party programs
to do such) and it is better off for it.
Yes, that is a nitpick. By "terminal emulator" I mean the GUI program
housing the command interpreter.
Have you ever pressed delete and just got a ~? Pressed home and got a ~[B
(or whatever the hell it is)?
The defaults are set up so that you don't get this issue. The exception
is when you are logging in on a virtual terminal -- you don't have a
shell yet. Fixing this on the rare occasions that it happened (which
pretty much only involved using cygwin) was quick and straightforward.
Tried to use a program with color after
changing the background color of your window?
First, very few programs use color. Second, it's rare to change the
background color of your window. Third, it's always worked perfectly for
me on the rare occasions in which I have done so.
Resized a window and had
your text cut off?
No.
Go up through your history and get corrupted lines?
No.
The Unix terminal system is barely usable - NOT something anyone should ever
try to emulate.
The Windows console, on the other hand, is a lot better, though still has its
warts. At least it is predictable though.
Just speaking of the GUI, there's no competition. Windows sucks.
