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On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Peter da Silva wrote: > > Oh you can do better than that. Tried to use `screen` with Terminal > > yet? > > Yeh. What's the problem? The problem, in my case, is that as the only Mac admin among a clutch of Linux admins that are all using the same shared screen session for managing servers, I'm constantly bitten by the way that most of the control keys don't Just Work, so you can't amend typos with backspace, and you can't redraw the view with ^L, and you can't, and you can't, and you can't... ad nauseam. Yes, this is an old Terminfo hate with a long, proud tradition behind it. I don't care. I got into Macs in the first place because I don't *want* to care. I just want the hateful steaming turd of a machine to work, dammit. To mutilate a Douglas Adams quote... I don't want to know about terminfo. I don't want to know about VT100 parameters (I don't. They give me the willies). I don't want to have to worry about what terminfo configuration to use for every system I might want to connect to so that I can get a proper shell to work in a consistent and predictable way. I'm a Mac user, for heaven's sake. This is meant to be easy. (Cf <http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/980707-00-a.html>;, with apologies.) (He'd have been a great source of hate-rants, come to think of it...) -- Chris DeversThere's stuff above here
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