Hi Alex and all, Aren't VIM and Nano Linux command line tools? I'm sure I've seen them when I've played with Linux? You can port these to the Mac I take it how cool.
Take care James ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Jurgensen" <asquare...@gmail.com> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:39 AM Subject: Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
