Re: good Linux terminal emulator for screen?

[Michael Parson]

On 2019-09-23 01:40, address@hidden wrote:
> On 2019-09-22 19:01-0400, Alan D. Salewski wrote:
> > Good ol' xterm?
> >
> > # apt-get -u install xterm
> >
> > https://invisible-island.net/xterm/
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xterm
>
> +1 for xterm. My .Xresources file has been following me around for
> years.
>
> Something about xterm feels faster than the others, could be ttf fonts,
> or other bells and whistles, I'm not sure.

I'm not sure if it's speed or something else... but xterm does just feel 
better than other terminal emulators.  I use it over any of the DE 
provided terms (kterm, gnome-terminal, etc) on Linux, and when I've had 
to use macOS or Windows as my workstation for work, I installed X11 
(XQuartx for Mac, cygwinx for Windows), so I could have a real xterm 
there too.  You might have to tweak your .Xresources a bit, but xterm 
does have quite a few knobs that can be twiddled with to get the look & 
behavior you're looking for.  My guess is that setting 'xterm*saveLines: 
0' should accomplish your need for the terminal to not scroll back when 
selecting past the top of the window, instead you'd need to depend on 
screen's scroll-back buffer.

Since screen's selection for copying text is more powerful than the 
default X11 one, I often use screen to select the text I want top copy 
to something outside of screen, then use screen's function to write the 
buffer out to a file (C-a : >), then use 'xclip' to copy the contents of 
that file to the X11 clipboard with 'cat ~/tmp/buffer | xclip -i' (I 
configure screen to use a different 'bufferfile' to be something in my 
home directory instead of the default of /tmp/screen-exchange).  I can 
then middle-click paste the text I originally selected in screen to some 
other X11 window.  macOS has a similar command to xclip that will stuff 
your buffer file into the macOS clipboard, thought it's been long enough 
since using a Mac that this info has scrolled out of my wet-ware 
scrollback and would have to look it up again.

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Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
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