On 30 Apr, Gregory Hayes shouted:
-> On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, electron wrote:
->
-> >
-> >
-> > On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Gregory Hayes wrote:
-> >
-> > > I am excited about Eterm as it fixes some of the problems I am having
-> > > with other xterm progs, as well as it being way cool.
-> >
-> > Out of curiosity, what kinds of problems do you have with other xterm programs?
-> >
->
-> The xterm quest.
->
-> I started my xterm use in the mid 80's on sun3's and they had that
-> funny sunview interface but unlike DOS you could highlight text,
-> click the mouse select copy from a menu then click to select a
-> target and use the menu to paste (this was a sheeltool or commandtool).
-> After being a command line unix/dos guy for so long this was definatly
-> cool. A bit later I discovered xterm and the select text with left
-> button and paste with the middle. I think I discovered this when I
-> had a motif because sunview/openview was really annoying in that the
-> right mouse button did the menus and you had no control over what the
-> mouse buttons could do, so was born my first yearning for what is now
-> enlightenment.
->
-> OK so after I had motif and xterm I was farily happy (you could at
-> least do some configuration in motif and mwm),
-> then I discovered linux 0.8? and started to use it at home. After
-> trying to gather the kernel and other stuff myself I finally got a
-> copy of Yggdrasil Linux 0.99 and eventually a copy of Slackware.
-> Slackware had the cool COLOR enabled ls, which I love, so all was well
-> on linux and SGI but not on Solaris, HPUX, AIX (I do a lot of
-> heterogenious network design, integration, and installation).
-> Eventually the UNIX world setteled on CDE which has Dtterm which was
-> almost cool. On any Dtterm click on some text to highlight it, now
-> start vi go into insert mode and press the middle mouse button
-> and you get nothing :( I think dtterm wipes out the buffer where your
-> highlighted text is because if you use your scroolbar and scrool up
-> to some text that is off screen highlight it and then open vi and
-> paste it works fine.
->
-> So I went on my quest and tryed to get the latest xterm
-> source from opengroup and compile it an add color to it but the code
-> was so broken I decided to try to find someone who had allready started.
-> I found a few things but rxvt worked on the most plateforms that I
-> use so I am using rxvt-2.20. But there is a problem with it, do an
-> ls -al highlight several lines 10 or so, open vi or pine or emacs
-> now paste via middle mouse button and all hell breaks loose (well
-> you get a bunch of error bells) and you only get part of the text you
-> highlighted.
->
-> Next I was trying to find a new face for my Unicies because CDE is just
-> to boreing, I happened on enlightenment a while back in the early stages
-> and couldn't get it working on non linux so I bailed. Then later I
-> revisited the Gnome and E web pages and saw some screen shots and
-> there it was, Eterm in full color with background pixmaps (which I have
-> longed for ever since 8bit color came to the computer) and everything.
-> WooHoo I have verified that all of things that were broken in other
-> xterms are fixed in Eterm :)
->
-> Thanks to all who have worked to bring E, Gnome and Eterm to us.
and despite us being a bit quiet at times.. we're happy to do it and
are all wtill working on it tryng to improve it :) ... now back to E
0.14... :)
-> Greg
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