Hi, Gary, I use it all day with varied success. Nano is a new eddition to my toolbox and it seems to have a few qwerks, but nothing major. I also used to use VIM, but found it crashed a lot with VO.
You are correct that interacting and moving the VO cursor is the only way to read prior text. As far as interuptions, you should pipe the contents to a file and read it from teh file instead. What knd of development are you doing? Regards, Alex, On 20-Jul-09, at 8:09 PM, Garry Turkington wrote: > > Hi, > > I played with the Mac terminal last year and got some help from people > here re its accessibility. I'm now using my Mac a lot more and want > to > get the most out of the terminal so am requesting wisdom from others > out > there. > > From the command line I really need the ability to do development > locally > and connect to remote machines via ssh. I've found a few issues: > > 1. Any command that generates multi-line output seems to be > truncated by > the prompt or new line announcement. Good example is "java - > version". I > can improve this by setting a much shorter prompt in my shell but it's > still very hit and miss. Is there any way to configure things to more > reliably read new information? I've tried messing around with > cursor and > terminal types with no success that I can really point to. > > 2. Is there any way to review prior text on the screen or is > interacting > with the scroll area and moving the VO cursor up the way to do that? > > 3. When connecting to remote machines -- and to a lesser degree > locally -- > I need access to some ncurses applications but the cursor tracking > with VO > seems very unpredictable. An example would be to open "lynx - > show_cursor" > on the remote box and try and say navigate around the CNN homepage. > Or > use something like pine where cursoring around changes text > highlights. > > Anyone got advice as to how I can make all this work better for me? > > Many thanks, > Garry > > > -- > Garry Turkington > garry.turking...@gmail.com > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
