From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 30 4:55:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cannon.ecf.utoronto.ca (cannon.ecf.utoronto.ca [128.100.8.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51924150B3 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 04:55:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca) Received: from skule.ecf (vanderh@skule.ecf [128.100.8.6]) by cannon.ecf.utoronto.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA28964; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 07:55:44 -0500 Received: (from vanderh@localhost) by skule.ecf (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA19185998; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 07:55:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 07:55:43 -0500 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Will Andrews Cc: Joel Sutton , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Unix World Jan 1991 - 10 Predictions for the '90s Message-ID: <19991230075543.A18546887@skule.ecf.utoronto.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from Will Andrews on Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 04:13:16AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 04:13:16AM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > > Heh.. there's such a thing as a keyboard-ridden GUI environment. And that's > mine - WindowMaker. The simple beauty of the shell comes with a victim - > productivity. I can do a hell of a lot more at once with X than console. > Although that's mostly because of higher resolutions and more scrollback > support. ;) Syscons provides for both. Using vidcontrol 80x30 (or your favourite variation thereof) and "options SC_HISTORY_SIZE=2048" will get you a long way. Now if syscons would just have a working destructive (vidcontrol -c destructive) then I'd be really happy. :) The cursor has a tendency to spontaneously become non-destructive when certain cons25 escape codes are sent. Things still missing: multiple cut'n'paste buffers, and a pop-up menu to remind me what's running on each of the 15 different vtys. Sometimes a faster "-r fast" would be nice, too. -- Signature withheld by request of author. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message