24 hours of Leopard: Tabbed Terminal

I know, iTerm is great, blah blah, blah. However, does anyone know if the Leopard 'Terminal 2' app will run on Tiger? Just curious, if anyone has already tried it.

ive switched back to apple 12 years after ive left it but few tiny issues makes me keep my winxp close. one of the most annoying things was the simplidticity of basic Terminal on the Mac.

I need something that is like the VanDyke's SecureCRT on Windows. Tabs are lovely but i want to be able to script them as well as have auto-login ability into multiple tabs (machines) at once.

Any luck, any suggestions ?

Yep, Vipul. Multi-key modifiers worked for me in Emacs when I briefly tested them earlier today. I noticed trouble with C-h (describe-key) for C-M- prefixed keystrokes. It seemed to prepend the C-h to whatever was typed after it, then tried (and failed) to describe the newly-modified key's help. But that may have been a side effect of some other problem because mouse input was unpredictably misbehaving in a peculiar way I'd never experienced in six years of using OS X.

Re Multi-Modifiers:

I can confirm that they are now passed through correctly! I just tried out emacs, and C-M-b is detected when holding down ctrl and alt/option and pressing 'b'.

Mark,

Do you see any command-# shortcuts for the windows listed under the Windows menu? That's how they appear in 10.4's Terminal; I don't have 10.5 yet.

Ok, messed up in posting previous post.

Those Cmd- should be Cmd-"number". These have been broken for Cmd-"1 through 4".

Mark

I'm a Terminal addict. I typically have nine terminal windows open at all times with screen running inside of them.

In the past I have navigated between these windows using Cmd-. This seems to be broken for Cmd-. Has anyone else noticed this? Or is this something peculiar to my setup? Anyone found a solution?

Mark

Re: Posted at 7:53PM on Oct 25th 2007 by Doug Alcorn

Yeah, using Emacs in a Terminal shell is crippled without being able to type multi-key modifiers like Control-Option for the Control-Meta- prefix. I've failed trying to find a way to do it, which someone else's short explanation summarizes rather well:

http://plumlee.org/blog/2006/10/25/emacs-on-os-x-and-control-meta-sequences/

Doubt it's any different in Terminal 2 though I'd have checked anyway if I'd seen your post here before tinkering with 10.5 a bit at the Apple Store a couple hours ago.

Posted at 4:31AM on Oct 26th 2007 by plivesey

If someone only wants to change the default shell in Terminal then it's easier to do it in Terminal's Preferences instead of fussing with Netinfo Manager. And there are not-necessarily-easier ways to use a different shell for remote logins without changing it in Netinfo Manager, e.g. init file hacking. Or type something like "exec zsh -l" after an interactive remote login until it becomes tedious. :)

There are a few things that really annoy me with the new Terminal.app.

First and foremost, it's no longer possible to have a background picture in the Terminal (it crashes if you edit Terminal.plist to include BackgroundImagePath, and there's no preference screen for it - BackgroundImagePath is however still mentioned in the binary. . .).

Secondly, it no longer seems to be possible to remove the scrollbars (but keep the buffer) - another fairly annoying issue.

I agree with 19. Screen all the way.