From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 10 22:15:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id WAA01648 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 22:15:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA01641 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 22:15:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.8.4/8.8.4) id BAA02660; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 01:15:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 01:15:52 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199701110615.BAA02660@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: louie@TransSys.COM, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A cool xterm? Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.hackers References: <5b79dl$2b8e@msunews.cl.msu.edu> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In lists.freebsd.hackers you write: >Seriously, one of the thinks I loved about the Stuart terminal emulator >on NeXTSTEP is that the scrollback buffer was essentially infinite (or >could be if you wanted). It "did the right thing" when the screen was >cleared and other cursor positioning stuff happened. Funny, I can't >exactly explain what "the right thing" is now, all I know is that xterm >and rxvt don't manage to do it, sigh. God knows I would give alot for the NeXT terminal emulator, I know people who still use nextstep just for that reason! -Crh -- Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich