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falcolas · 2015-03-03 14:16:43+00:00

Do you have a workaround for having to run them in a `cmd` or `powershell` window? Those are worse than the old terminals in many cases.

chiragnpatel | karma 1 | avg karma 0.5 · | 2018-07-06 12:13:18+00:00

Sure. I will try using the terminal too. thanks for the suggestion. :-)

stephth | karma 1130 | avg karma 2.97 · | 2011-04-08 04:51:19+00:00

Same problem, but using Terminal.

spacemanaki | karma 2544 | avg karma 3.24 · | 2012-01-10 18:59:56+00:00

I just tried to do that on a Win7 machine sitting next to me and it didn't work... it doesn't seem to let me highlight anything at all? I normally wouldn't comment about something like this but I wanted to do this literally 10 minutes before I read your comment. Anyway I don't think it's controversial to suggest that the stock terminal on Windows kind of sucks, although I gather that PowerShell is pretty good.

saljam | karma 396 | avg karma 2.87 · | 2012-09-08 19:00:33+00:00

I digress, but I think this is one of the most annoying things about Unix these days. I practically live by the command line; but terminals are terrible. We're basically emulating technology that was already getting obsolete in the 70s!

Plan 9 had the courage to shed this cruft by having simple text windows which have a prompt. No curser addressing and no crazy control codes. That makes rendering it just as easy (and beautiful) as rendering text box contents. I wish the Linux desktop environments would follow suit.

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bovermyer | karma 7932 | avg karma 3.1 · | 2017-11-30 15:01:32+00:00

Just use the terminal client then.

antpls | karma 1216 | avg karma 1.37 · | 2019-04-23 07:10:40+00:00

I wish softwares were more often retrofitted to terminal when possible. Good work !

Zev | karma 2386 | avg karma 1.73 · | 2009-01-21 23:09:24

Have you tried using an X11.app terminal instead of Terminal.app terminal? That may have different/better results.

MarcScott | karma 6752 | avg karma 8.43 · | 2017-01-15 17:57:43+00:00

This bugs me as well. I use a tiling windows manager, so terminal windows are completely disposable to me, and I'll open and close them at will, often having double digit terminals open across 10 desktops.

My bash history does not reflect my use of multiple terminals.

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throwaway287391 | karma 631 | avg karma 1.98 · | 2018-07-28 22:28:24+00:00

Cool, thanks -- maybe I'll give built-in Terminal another whirl at some point then.

TomAnthony | karma 3591 | avg karma 7.96 · | 2015-03-23 12:21:10+00:00

I doubt it solves all your problems, but for the issue with terminals I recommend Go2Shell[1] which just adds an icon you can click to open a terminal in that window.

[1] http://zipzapmac.com/go2shell

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dlivingston | karma 2195 | avg karma 3.52 · | 2022-12-29 11:20:06

I'm sorry, but that sounds awful. I turn to the terminal when I want precise and exact control over commands - the above seems highly fuzzy and error-prone.

allisdust | karma 444 | avg karma 1.51 · | 2023-01-15 20:57:38

This is a common enough problem that Windows power toys used to have a way to open terminal from explorer right click menu. Very useful functionality.

eridius | karma 15723 | avg karma 2.78 · | 2017-01-06 18:56:46+00:00

Terminal.app seems to handle this case just fine as well.

jonathan_s | karma 78 | avg karma 3.0 · | 2015-04-26 17:58:17

Can you tell me what terminal application you are using? Does it happen as well in a new terminal?

DustinBrett | karma 1107 | avg karma 3.62 · | 2022-11-23 12:29:27

Thanks for this info! I have a terminal on my website that was still using the old version and I've been wanting to upgrade it and get better input/blocking support. I will give this a try.

Sonicmouse | karma 66 | avg karma 1.38 · | 2014-11-05 22:40:59+00:00

Exactly ... Back to basics.

Just learn how to use the terminal in its default form. We've been doing it for years efficiently.

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renewedrebecca | karma 502 | avg karma 2.0 · | 2024-07-01 18:00:46

You don't actually use Terminal.app do you?

XtalJ | karma 103 | avg karma 1.69 · | 2017-01-19 11:14:15+00:00

At my new job, yes, but I solved the hideous problem by installing Babun, which is a package of a fairly good terminal emulator (mintty), cygwin, package manager, and my beloved zsh :-) I can use vim, grep, ls, find, sed, shell scripts, and much more. Like on Linux but without the possiblity to choose fluxbox as window manager.

Semaphor | karma 13668 | avg karma 2.69 · | 2020-03-18 10:02:17+00:00

you can use anything in terminal: bash, cmd, powershell