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Ask Slashdot: What Terminal Emulator Do You Use?
An anonymous reader writes: Although I spend a considerable amount of my time at work using shell commands and other text-based applications, I've never really given much thought to what terminal emulator I use. A recent article over on Opensource.com rounded up their picks for their seven favorite terminals, but I'm still unsure if it really matters which one I pick. Do you have a favorite terminal emulator, and if so, what makes it your favorite? I'm interested in hearing about that "one killer feature" that really sold you on your choice.
All things being equal, I prefer KDE's Konsole. It has all the features I need or want (tabs, profiles, easy customization) and fits well in the KDE environment.
If I'm using a simple window manager, I go for rxvt because it's lightweight and still hits most of the feature list.
What I actually use the most is Putty thanks to the fact that I'm at work and Windows doesn't include a sane set of utilities.
The hall of shame award goes to Apple's Terminal.app. Horrible handling of the bash key shortcuts.
Alex, I'll take keybindings not used by Emacs for $400....
Whenever I dial up to my ISP on my 1200 baud modem using an acoustic coupler, I prefer using Kermit!
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit...
That was the turning point of my life--I went from negative zero to positive zero.
Hmmm ... cmd.exe is a command line shell.
But cmd.exe is NOT a terminal emulator, not by a long shot.
A terminal emulator, oddly enough, emulates terminals ... VT52, VT102, IBM 3270, and a bunch of other things. You know, like the old school real physical terminals.
So, sorry, but no. cmd.exe is NOT a suitable answer to "what terminal emulator do you use". It's simply not even in the same family as a terminal emulator.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
You actually have just as many options as any other term emu. I use zsh with Terminal.app just fine. OS X comes with:
/bin/zsh (z shell)
/bin/ksh (korn shell)
/bin/tcsh (t shell)
/bin/bash (default - bourne again shell)
/bin/sh (not bourne shell but bourne-again shell (bash) - it's not symlinked though which is interesting)
You can change it via the chsh command just like any other unix OS or if you feel like pointing and clicking your way there, you can edit Terminal.app's preferences.