Command Line Badness
I have been really using the text editor vi lately – in addition to using vi (actually vim, the expanded vi) exclusively for creating my Lilypond music files, I have also used vi to draw up my notes for documents at work. It’s worked really well for me, and I have gotten much more familiar with the vi commands.
However, I have one big complaint here regarding my Mac OS X laptop. There is no full screen option for the Terminal application. Sure, you can log in as >console, but you lose your ANSI colors in the terminal. Useless.
So I have been reduced to starting Windows in Parallels, logging in to my own laptop using Putty, and using Putty in full screen mode. Is this not crazy?
Update 2009-03-10: Alright, I tried out iTerm and I think all my issues are resolved. It does full screen, and has a ton of features. I never really understood why people would need features for a terminal emulator, but now that I’m using it more I can see the advantages.
have you looked for another terminal app with more features?
Actually, I didn’t make a huge effort to find a replacement terminal. I just did a quick search, and I’ll try out iTerm. Looks like they have a full screen option.
I’ll let you know how it turns out.