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On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Simon Wistow wrote:
> Terminals seem to be another of those things that you'd think would be
> really simple (display text and, err, that's about it) but are actually
> a bottomless pit of hate situated in the Mountains of Loathing, deep
> within the steamy Destest Jungle on the Island of
> F&*CKINGPIECEOFSHIT!!@$%
Colors, selection, baud, control modes, stty, you name it, lotsa hate.
> Some terminals highlight a URL that scrolls past and allow you to double
> click on it and it will be loade din a browser. They ones that do that
> have, in my experience, many other, often unrelated hates which
> preclude's their use. But thi is fine since I can just highlight the URL
> like so and switch to my other window and paste it into my browser's URL
> bar. No great hardship.
>
> But wait! What's this? I have pasted blank *cough*
>
> I go back. I look again. Oh, I see, it was in an IRC window and somebody
> has said something so the line I highlighted has moved up.
>
> CLEARLY THIS MEANT THAT YOU SHOULD CLEAR THE CLIPBOARD. YOU PIECE OF
> SHIT.
At this point I can only recommend RXVT, which has likely protected me
from a significant amount of terminal hate. I have no such problem with
RXVT, and seldom do I hate it (although, like all Unix things, it took me
a while to get it that way, e.g., colors).
--
"I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up
something else."
--Lily Tomlin
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