Hi, Cocoaclipse, the Cocoa port of the Eclipse Javae IDE is apparently good with VO.
Regards, Alex, On 21-Jul-09, at 4:54 AM, Garry Turkington wrote: > > Hi James/Alex, > > Thanks for your input here. James, I'd be interested to hear if > you've > done any configuring to make access to apps on the remote machines > you ssh > to better? > > Coming back to my 3 questions thanks for the clarification re > interaction > with the scroll area for screen review, that's fine. > > But I'm still frustrated that multi-line output from commands isn't > automatically read and would either require me to interact with the > scroll > area to review the output or as Alex suggests pipe output to a file > for > review. I'll be doing primarily Java development (with some > C++/Python/Ruby thrown in) so an efficient edit/compile/debug cycle is > really important. Getting the output of the Java compiler to read > as it > appears instead of having to review it or even worse pipe out and > review > would probably improve my productivity by an order of magnitude. > > On the remaining point does anyone use any ncurses based apps such > as Pine > or Lynx on remote machines and discovered a way for better cursor > tracking? Anyone raised terminal accessibility issues with Apple? > > Many thanks, > Garry > > -- > Garry Turkington > garry.turking...@gmail.com > > On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Michael Babcock wrote: > >> >> hi; >> jumping in here, but i use terminal all the time for sshing into >> the 3 >> servers i administer, if someone has a better way to do this, that >> would be wonderful, but i just use it now and love it:) >> On Jul 21, 2009, at 1:10 AM, James & Nash wrote: >> >>> >>> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
