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Nicholas Clark writes:
> WTF? Why is the hateful thing doing some sort of word wrapping whenever
> the line has a non-ASCII character?
> Why can't I disable it?
Other things to hate about Apple Terminal:
* It has a Preferences dialog which, following the HIGs, can be found b=
y
hitting Command-;. But it puts most prefs not in the Preferences
dialog, but in the crack-fuelled "Terminal > Window Settings..." menu
item.
* It carefully avoids using libc's wcswidth() function to work out the
width of characters. Instead, it has a pref (!) to determine whether
non-ASCII characters are 1 cell or 2. If you set it to 1, fullwidth
Unihan and Kana characters get broken. If you set it to 2, Unihan an=
d
Kana work, but everything else gets broken. This is a neat way of
ensuring that, for example, Mutt will always get its layout screwed w=
hen
you receive foreign-language spam.
* If you have a UK Mac keyboard (on which Shift-3 is =A3, and # is foun=
d on
Option-3), and you sanely set "Use option key as meta key" (so that y=
ou
can type Meta-f and Meta-b without using the Escape key), there's
actually no direct way of typing a # character at all.
In theory, it ought to be possible to tell Terminal that Shift-3 is #=
,
and =A3 is nowhere. In practice, if you try to add a key mapping for
Shift-3, you discover that the 3 key isn't in the _special_ set of ke=
ys
you're allowed to map.
Also in theory, you might be able to make it work by editing
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist in Property List Edito=
r.
But in practice, you need to use some magic hex value to identify the
key gesture you mean. I don't even know where I could look up such a
thing.
In the end, I gave up: to get a # under Terminal, I have to either (a=
)
remember that I mapped it to Option-F3, or (b) copy and paste from
something else.
The lack of a working terminal emulator for Mac OS (no, iTerm doesn't cou=
nt;
nor does anything run under X) is one of the reasons I'm going back to
Linux once I get a new laptop.
--=20
Aaron Crane
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