Mailing List Archive: Terminal suggestions?

Terminal suggestions?

Oct 15, 2004, 7:29 AM

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Hello,

I am looking for suggestions on a good terminal to use in X. Ihave been usi
ng putty for a while now (pterm). I am looking for something that uses a little
less memory, as pterm seems to eat it up after being open a while. I don't know
if this is a problem with the terminal app or not but I also at times notice tha
t long strings will not wrap around the cli very well, and the last half of what
I am typeing starts being overwritten by the next.

So far I have tried xterm and gnome-terminal, and something else that came w
ith my mandrake installation (gone now :p). The main thing I dislike about these
is the way they handle double click highlighting. I have a fair amount of files
with '-' and '.' characters in thier filenames (IM logs, artist-song.name.mp3 e
tc). These characters seem to stop a lot of terms highlighting on double click,
so only part of the filename is selected. With putty, there are fewer character
s that do this.

I will give anything a whirl, so thanks in advance, all suggestions are appr
eciated.

Thanks
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Re: Terminal suggestions? [ In reply to ]

dorward at gmail

Oct 15, 2004, 7:37 AM

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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 04:29:17 -1000, Josh <korthrun@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am looking for suggestions on a good terminal to use in X.
> So far I have tried ... gnome-terminal
> I dislike ... the way they handle double click highlighting.
> files with '-' and '.' characters in thier filenames

Take another look at gnome-terminal. I believe the Edit > Current
Profile then altering the "Selection-by-word-characters" preference
will let you add "-" and "." to characters considered to be words as
far as double click highlighting is concerned.

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Re: Terminal suggestions? [ In reply to ]

T.Six at gmx

Oct 15, 2004, 8:51 AM

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Josh wrote, On 15.10.2004 16:29:
> Hello,
> The main thing I dislike about these
> is the way they handle double click highlighting. I have a fair amount of files
> with '-' and '.' characters in thier filenames (IM logs, artist-song.name.mp3 e
> tc). These characters seem to stop a lot of terms highlighting on double click,

Put this in your ~/.Xdefaults and try it with Xterm again.

XTerm*charClass:
33:48,35:48,37:48,43:48,45-47:48,64:48,95:48,126:48,35:48,58:48

bye Thilo

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Re: Terminal suggestions? [ In reply to ]

luke at dslextreme

Oct 15, 2004, 11:05 AM

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On 2004-10-15 10:50, Josh <korthrun@gmail.com> wrote:
> So far I have tried xterm and gnome-terminal, and something else
> that came w ith my mandrake installation (gone now :p). The main
> thing I dislike about these is the way they handle double click
> highlighting. I have a fair amount of files with '-' and '.'
> characters in thier filenames (IM logs, artist-song.name.mp3 e
> tc). These characters seem to stop a lot of terms highlighting on
> double click, so only part of the filename is selected. With putty,
> there are fewer character s that do this.

Both xterm and gnome-terminal will let you change which characters are
considered parts of words.

In gnome-terminal, in the profile editing dialog, there is a field
`Select-by-word characters'. Mine here seems to include dashes and
dots by default - apparently yours doesn't, but it's easy enough to
add them. It looks like you'll want to put the dash first so that it
doesn't get confused and think you're referring to a range of
characters. Otherwise, it's straightforward.

For xterm, it's a bit more complicated. See the section `CHARACTER
CLASSES' in the xterm(1) man page.

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Re: Terminal suggestions? [ In reply to ]

korthrun at gmail

Oct 15, 2004, 12:23 PM

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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:05:34 -0700, Luke Ravitch
<luke@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> On 2004-10-15 10:50, Josh <korthrun@gmail.com> wrote:
> > So far I have tried xterm and gnome-terminal, and something
> > else that came w ith my mandrake installation (gone now :p). The
> > main thing I dislike about these is the way they handle double
> > click highlighting. I have a fair amount of files with '-' and
> > '.'
> > characters in thier filenames (IM logs, artist-song.name.mp3 e
> > tc). These characters seem to stop a lot of terms highlighting on
> > double click, so only part of the filename is selected. With
> > putty, there are fewer character s that do this.
>
> Both xterm and gnome-terminal will let you change which characters
> are considered parts of words.
>
> In gnome-terminal, in the profile editing dialog, there is a field
> `Select-by-word characters'. Mine here seems to include dashes and
> dots by default - apparently yours doesn't, but it's easy enough to
> add them. It looks like you'll want to put the dash first so that
> it doesn't get confused and think you're referring to a range of
> characters. Otherwise, it's straightforward.
>
> For xterm, it's a bit more complicated. See the section `CHARACTER
> CLASSES' in the xterm(1) man page.
>
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:05:34 -0700, Luke Ravitch
<luke@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> On 2004-10-15 10:50, Josh <korthrun@gmail.com> wrote:
> > So far I have tried xterm and gnome-terminal, and something
> > else that came w ith my mandrake installation (gone now :p). The
> > main thing I dislike about these is the way they handle double
> > click highlighting. I have a fair amount of files with '-' and
> > '.'
> > characters in thier filenames (IM logs, artist-song.name.mp3 e
> > tc). These characters seem to stop a lot of terms highlighting on
> > double click, so only part of the filename is selected. With
> > putty, there are fewer character s that do this.
>
> Both xterm and gnome-terminal will let you change which characters
> are considered parts of words.
>
> In gnome-terminal, in the profile editing dialog, there is a field
> `Select-by-word characters'. Mine here seems to include dashes and
> dots by default - apparently yours doesn't, but it's easy enough to
> add them. It looks like you'll want to put the dash first so that
> it doesn't get confused and think you're referring to a range of
> characters. Otherwise, it's straightforward.
>
> For xterm, it's a bit more complicated. See the section `CHARACTER
> CLASSES' in the xterm(1) man page.
>
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Thanks for all the feedback. I will try those things with xterm when
I get home tonight. Hopefully that will work as I'd like, because atm
I don't have gnome anything installed.

Thanks again

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