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mksh workalike (Score: 2, Interesting)

by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2014-09-25 11:44 (#2SX5)

If you don't need quite all the bash-isms, mksh is a great lightweight replacement, which is almost entirely drop-in compatible:

* http://mirbsd.de/mksh

I prefer mksh primarily because bash goes horribly brain-dead when you attempt line-editing on command lines that wrap-around to the next line. Your bash session becomes practically unusable after you hit that limit (which I do, often) and it first wigs-out:

* http://i.imgur.com/Vo2BQq2.png

It doesn't hurt that the mksh binary is 3.4X smaller, starts-up faster, is more responsive, can be statically linked, and doesn't hold open 28 files, all of which matters a lot in a minimal system recovery type situation.

Re: mksh workalike (Score: 1)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-09-25 11:54 (#2SX6)

Yeah, I've seen that freak-out too, and it's annoying. Are you running term on blackbox, by the way? How wonderfully oldschool (and non-UTF). If Aterm had only gotten utf support I'd still be using it now.

Re: mksh workalike (Score: 1)

by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2014-09-25 12:13 (#2SX8)

Are you running [a]term on blackbox, by the way?
That screen shot is quite old... These days I run urxvt on Fluxbox! Completely different...
If Aterm had only gotten utf support I'd still be using it now.
It did. Aterm was merged into, and deprecated in favor of, urxvt / rxvt-unicode:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rxvt-unicode
* http://www.afterstep.org/news.php?show=2008

Works great for me, just like good old aterm plus some new features like anti-aliased and scalable freetype fonts, resize on-the-fly with escape sequences, etc. Seems to be in most repos. I'm glad it's still going, because the clumsiness of xterm is even more frustrating than bash.

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2014-09-25 12:13
Are you running [a]term on blackbox, by the way?
That screen shot is quite old... These days I run urxvt on Fluxbox!
If Aterm had only gotten utf support I'd still be using it now.
It did. Aterm was merged with and deprecated in favor of urxvt / rxvt-unicode:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rxvt-unicode
* http://www.afterstep.org/news.php?show=2008

Works great for me, just like good old aterm plus some new features like anti-aliased fonts, resize on-the-fly with escape sequences, etc. Seems to be in many repos. I'm glad it's still going, because the clumsiness of xterm is even more frustrating than bash.
2014-09-25 12:14
Are you running [a]term on blackbox, by the way?
That screen shot is quite old... These days I run urxvt on Fluxbox!
If Aterm had only gotten utf support I'd still be using it now.
It did. Aterm was merged wintho, and deprecated in favor of, urxvt / rxvt-unicode:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rxvt-unicode
* http://www.afterstep.org/news.php?show=2008

Works great for me, just like good old aterm plus some new features like anti-aliased fonts, resize on-the-fly with escape sequences, etc. Seems to be in many repos. I'm glad it's still going, because the clumsiness of xterm is even more frustrating than bash.
2014-09-25 12:16
Are you running [a]term on blackbox, by the way?
That screen shot is quite old... These days I run urxvt on Fluxbox!
If Aterm had only gotten utf support I'd still be using it now.
It did. Aterm was merged into, and deprecated in favor of, urxvt / rxvt-unicode:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rxvt-unicode
* http://www.afterstep.org/news.php?show=2008

Works great for me, just like good old aterm plus some new features like anti-aliased and scalable freetype fonts, resize on-the-fly with escape sequences, etc. Seems to be in manyost repos. I'm glad it's still going, because the clumsiness of xterm is even more frustrating than bash.
2014-09-25 14:17
Are you running [a]term on blackbox, by the way?
That screen shot is quite old... These days I run urxvt on Fluxbox! Completely different...
If Aterm had only gotten utf support I'd still be using it now.
It did. Aterm was merged into, and deprecated in favor of, urxvt / rxvt-unicode:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rxvt-unicode
* http://www.afterstep.org/news.php?show=2008

Works great for me, just like good old aterm plus some new features like anti-aliased and scalable freetype fonts, resize on-the-fly with escape sequences, etc. Seems to be in most repos. I'm glad it's still going, because the clumsiness of xterm is even more frustrating than bash.

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