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Date:      Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:53:53 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
Cc:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r186731 - head/sys/dev/syscons/teken
Message-ID:  <86ocyc5uu6.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20090105172243.GO14235@hoeg.nl> (Ed Schouten's message of "Mon,  5 Jan 2009 18:22:43 %2B0100")
References:  <200901040020.n040KIcc041121@svn.freebsd.org> <20090104120434.GF93900@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20090104121331.GC14235@hoeg.nl> <20090105171523.GC50568@dragon.NUXI.org> <20090105172243.GO14235@hoeg.nl>

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Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> writes:
> The reason I'm proposing xterm, is because it is the best supported
> [...] very portable [...] a lot of other pieces of software that try
> to mimic it [...]

It also supports a settable title bar, which I find very useful; many
people have their shell set up to put the machine name, login name, tty,
current directory and whatever on the title bar.  We could easily use
the top line on the VGA console for that.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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