Re: iTerm vs Terminal (was: ACS characters in Terminal.app)

2012-11-01 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
/ Patrick Shanahan wrote on Wed 31.Oct'12 at 20:07:03 -0400 / * Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au [10-31-12 19:31]: On 31Oct2012 15:17, Jeremy Kitchen kitc...@kitchen.io wrote: | | You may want to look into tmux :) Oh, I do want to! I'm still a screen user on the whole and haven't

Re: ACS characters in Terminal.app

2012-11-01 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
/ Will Yardley wrote on Wed 31.Oct'12 at 11:46:40 -0700 / On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:42:59AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: Also, if you look at the screenshot carefully, you can see that the lines don't seem to align perfectly horizontally either. Actually, this part may have been due to

Re: iTerm vs Terminal (was: ACS characters in Terminal.app)

2012-11-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 31Oct2012 17:32, Jeremy Kitchen kitc...@kitchen.io wrote: | On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 10:28:09AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: | [...] I've got mutt configured to automatically | compose replies in a detachable screen session named after a mangling of | the subject line, so I can reconnect

Re: iTerm vs Terminal (was: ACS characters in Terminal.app)

2012-11-01 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
/ Cameron Simpson wrote on Thu 1.Nov'12 at 21:14:45 +1100 / On 31Oct2012 17:32, Jeremy Kitchen kitc...@kitchen.io wrote: | On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 10:28:09AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: | [...] I've got mutt configured to automatically | compose replies in a detachable screen session

Re: iTerm vs Terminal (was: ACS characters in Terminal.app)

2012-11-01 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 09:14:45PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: It relies on a feature of mutt: if you exit the editor having changed nothing, mutt silently cancels the compose mode. So muttedit is invoked as your editor. It: - takes a copy of the message composition file it is handed

Re: ACS characters in Terminal.app

2012-10-31 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
/ Dennis Preiser wrote on Tue 30.Oct'12 at 14:15:45 +0100 / On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 10:02:28PM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: This may just be an issue with the Terminal program in OS X, but I'm having some problems with the ACS characters in the threading (I'm not setting $ascii_chars) having

Re: ACS characters in Terminal.app

2012-10-31 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 31Oct2012 08:52, Jamie Paul Griffin ja...@kode5.net wrote: | / Dennis Preiser wrote on Tue 30.Oct'12 at 14:15:45 +0100 / | On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 10:02:28PM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: | This may just be an issue with the Terminal program in OS X, but I'm | having some problems with the

Re: ACS characters in Terminal.app

2012-10-31 Thread Dennis Preiser
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 08:52:08AM +, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: / Dennis Preiser wrote on Tue 30.Oct'12 at 14:15:45 +0100 / On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 10:02:28PM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: The behavior can be seen here: http://soulrebels.com/mutt_threads.png This might be an issue with

Re: ACS characters in Terminal.app

2012-10-31 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
/ Cameron Simpson wrote on Wed 31.Oct'12 at 20:25:32 +1100 / On 31Oct2012 08:52, Jamie Paul Griffin ja...@kode5.net wrote: | / Dennis Preiser wrote on Tue 30.Oct'12 at 14:15:45 +0100 / | On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 10:02:28PM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: | This may just be an issue with the

Re: ACS characters in Terminal.app

2012-10-31 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 08:25:32PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 31Oct2012 08:52, Jamie Paul Griffin ja...@kode5.net wrote: The OP's problem isn't the connectors not being drawn (possible with fonts and locales) but with then being drawn but with gaps due to the line spacing. Actually, the

Re: ACS characters in Terminal.app

2012-10-31 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:44:50AM +0100, Dennis Preiser wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 08:52:08AM +, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: / Dennis Preiser wrote on Tue 30.Oct'12 at 14:15:45 +0100 / This might be an issue with the font in Terminal.app. I use menlo 12 pt and the threading looks

Re: ACS characters in Terminal.app

2012-10-31 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:42:59AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: Also, if you look at the screenshot carefully, you can see that the lines don't seem to align perfectly horizontally either. Actually, this part may have been due to character spacing having been off by a tiny bit. I had already

iTerm vs Terminal (was: ACS characters in Terminal.app)

2012-10-31 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 31Oct2012 11:12, Jamie Paul Griffin ja...@kode5.net wrote: | I understand that, it has always been that way (since i've used Macs | anyway). It doesn't bother me especially so long as the text content | is properly displayed. Me too. In fact I hadn't even noticed until the post. | I tried

Re: iTerm vs Terminal (was: ACS characters in Terminal.app)

2012-10-31 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 09:01:20AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: | I tried iTerm2 but I didn't like it much. For me | the default Terminal in Mac OS X renders a nicer display IMO. But then i | spend little time on my Mac, mostly I just use my BSD machines and urxvt. I like iTerm2 for the

Re: iTerm vs Terminal (was: ACS characters in Terminal.app)

2012-10-31 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 09:01:20AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: - focus follows mouse You can enable sloppy focus in Terminal.app too (though there's a long-standing and very annoying bug with the interaction between that and *other* applications, which don't have it). % defaults read

Re: iTerm vs Terminal (was: ACS characters in Terminal.app)

2012-10-31 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 31Oct2012 15:17, Jeremy Kitchen kitc...@kitchen.io wrote: | On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 09:01:20AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: | | I tried iTerm2 but I didn't like it much. For me | | the default Terminal in Mac OS X renders a nicer display IMO. But then i | | spend little time on my Mac,

Re: iTerm vs Terminal (was: ACS characters in Terminal.app)

2012-10-31 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au [10-31-12 19:31]: On 31Oct2012 15:17, Jeremy Kitchen kitc...@kitchen.io wrote: | | You may want to look into tmux :) Oh, I do want to! I'm still a screen user on the whole and haven't yet wrapped my head around tmux' usage. But if you mean logically

Re: iTerm vs Terminal (was: ACS characters in Terminal.app)

2012-10-31 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 10:28:09AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 31Oct2012 15:17, Jeremy Kitchen kitc...@kitchen.io wrote: | You may want to look into tmux :) Oh, I do want to! [...] But if you mean logically subdividing a single _terminal_ window with multiple session displays, no

ACS characters in Terminal.app

2012-10-30 Thread Will Yardley
This may just be an issue with the Terminal program in OS X, but I'm having some problems with the ACS characters in the threading (I'm not setting $ascii_chars) having breaks between them. The behavior can be seen here: http://soulrebels.com/mutt_threads.png Normally (sorry Thomas), I just use

Re: ACS characters in Terminal.app

2012-10-30 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 02:15:45PM +0100, Dennis Preiser wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 10:02:28PM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: This may just be an issue with the Terminal program in OS X, but I'm having some problems with the ACS characters in the threading (I'm not setting $ascii_chars)