Re: [wmii] Re: moving liblitz on

From: Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam_AT_wmii.de>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 09:02:23 +0200

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 08:29:29PM +0200, Denis Grelich wrote:
> On Thu, 25 May 2006 10:18:24 -0700
> Uriel <lost.goblin_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I thought terminals should die a bloody and painful death? That's at
> > > least what they should do in my opinion. They are too restricted and
> > > primitive in my eyes, and they make any sane text handling a mess.
> > > (How many terminal emulators do you know that, for example, break
> > > text correctly on resize?)
> >
> > That is because they don't handle text, they handle "richtext", I
> > specially love it how cat-ing a binary file sends any typewriter
> > emulator flying to outer space in a thousand pieces, got to love reset
> > (1) (when it works.)
>
> I'm not going to write a terminal emulator. That's not my primary
> intent in anything I do. I bet you got your appartment is full of
> crazy-coloured wallpapers from the 70ies, as you seem to be stuck in the
> middle age of computing.

No but we still drink our water with a beaker made of tin. ;)

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