On 2019-09-23 01:40, ed-scr...@s5h.net wrote:
On 2019-09-22 19:01-0400, Alan D. Salewski wrote:
Good ol' xterm?
# apt-get -u install xterm
https://invisible-island.net/xterm/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xterm
+1 for xterm. My .Xresources file has been following me around for
years.
Something about xterm feels faster than the others, could be ttf fonts,
or other bells and whistles, I'm not sure.
I'm not sure if it's speed or something else... but xterm does just feel
better than other terminal emulators. I use it over any of the DE
provided terms (kterm, gnome-terminal, etc) on Linux, and when I've had
to use macOS or Windows as my workstation for work, I installed X11
(XQuartx for Mac, cygwinx for Windows), so I could have a real xterm
there too. You might have to tweak your .Xresources a bit, but xterm
does have quite a few knobs that can be twiddled with to get the look &
behavior you're looking for. My guess is that setting 'xterm*saveLines:
0' should accomplish your need for the terminal to not scroll back when
selecting past the top of the window, instead you'd need to depend on
screen's scroll-back buffer.
Since screen's selection for copying text is more powerful than the
default X11 one, I often use screen to select the text I want top copy
to something outside of screen, then use screen's function to write the
buffer out to a file (C-a : >), then use 'xclip' to copy the contents of
that file to the X11 clipboard with 'cat ~/tmp/buffer | xclip -i' (I
configure screen to use a different 'bufferfile' to be something in my
home directory instead of the default of /tmp/screen-exchange). I can
then middle-click paste the text I originally selected in screen to some
other X11 window. macOS has a similar command to xclip that will stuff
your buffer file into the macOS clipboard, thought it's been long enough
since using a Mac that this info has scrolled out of my wet-ware
scrollback and would have to look it up again.
--
Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
KF5LGQ
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