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~/Library/Application Support/Terminal/ssh-hypsis.term Shortcuts for Terminal.app under the File - Library menu ~/Library/Application Support/Terminal/UTF-8.term usr/bin/env TERM=dtterm /usr/bin/login -pf YOUR_USERID

To automagically have Terminal.app start up with TERM set to dtterm by default, here's a clipped Terminal.app prefs file. Maybe all this undocumented functionality will be traded for Tektronix emulation in the next rev? Department of Tricks and Tips infocmp vt100 dtterm and infocmp xterm dtterm used with vttest have Terminal.app resemble dtterm the closest.Īpparently Apple ships a nice terminal emulator that complements xterm but for some reason is tagged only a vt100 emulator. Looks like the only thing Terminal.app cannot handle is X Window mouse location reporting.

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Not a small feat, considering that the current author of vttest also has code in xterm. There seems to be more functionality in Terminal.app than there is in xterm. Terminal.app "passes" more vttest suites than xterm.Naturally die-hard xterm fans have a way to do just about anything in xterm but for such simple tasks Terminal.app provides a feature that's easy to use for mere mortals. With Terminal.app it's easy to customise the title bar to show the current process, tty, window size etc. Custom info picked up by Terminal.app from the execution context.

" xterm-color" also works but some features such as visual bell (used by vi) will be missing. emacs, lynx ( Fink dist), GNU ls, all in glorious three-bit colour. The simplest way to enable colour in Terminal.app is to set TERM to " dtterm". Yes, that's a surprise, considering all the effort that's gone into hacking vt100-based colour termcaps etc.

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Terminal.app emulates an extended set of the VTxxx series commands, closely resembling dtterm.

Now that Terminal.app has some "serious" competition in the form of xterm as part of the X11 release there could be some saving graces keeping Terminal.app still relevant. Speeding it up: Set the shell to /bin/bash -l and run sudo rm -rf /private/var/log/asl/*.asl to remove Apple System Log files it insists on skimming upon launch.

3 min read Terminal.app is not your grandfather's VT100 terminal.