On 13/12/2014, Martin Natano <[email protected]> wrote: > I think we shouldn't replace xterm for a number of reasons: > > 1) xterm is very configurable. Did you have a look at the manpage > recently?
No, I use st recently... > I don't know two people with the same xterm settings in their > .Xresources file. I don't think there are equivalents for bellIsUrgent, > cursorOffTime, fastScroll, selectToClipboard, visualBell, etc. in st. > > 2) st doesn't allow to change the font/fonsize or shell without > recompiling. Actually it does: -f, -e options. But it reads no configuration file by design, which is potentially a fair argument against it in base. > 3) st uses its own terminfo entry. Good luck trying to run an curses > program on another box over ssh when the other box doesn't have st > installed. This would also apply to xterm; remote box must have xterminfo. > 4) I never had problems with xterm - it just works. I've tried a lot of > other terminal emulators myself, but always came back to xterm, because > of availability, bugs, missing features or other reasons. To each their own. I use st because of missing features ☺ Anyhow, if you prefer xterm in base, so be it. Cheers, M
