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2010-01-03 , 04:51
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I use Mutt to read my mail and Emacs to edit replies, inside a GNU Screen session over SSH, and it quickly becomes apparent that the "X-Terminal" is not a ported app but something new and needs a bit of love, because
- In Mutt, most of the subject lines don't appear because it's ANSI colour processing isn't quite right, so nearly every line from Mutt appears in black on black! Fortunately the currently selected line is visible, so you can sort of read blind, one line visible at a time
- The Enter key does not work! That is, inside Emacs or
any
application in a Screen session. The Enter key produces an escape sequence, and you have to type Ctrl-J to actually enter anything or get to the next line! It's acting like a numeric keypad Enter, not main keyboard Enter; an unfortunate choice given the way VTs work.
- There's no way to type the ~ (tilde) character, backquote or caret, because the 3rd row of pop-up symbols don't work.
- Even though you can type ], Ctrl-] does not work.
- Shift and BlueArrow are sticky, but Ctrl is not which makes some things a bit harder than necessary and feels annoyingly inconsistent in the X-Terminal, but understandable in other N900 contexts.
- You can type Ctrl-_ (undo in Emacs) and Ctrl-\, but the stickiness of BlueArrow does not stick when doing this, so you have to hold down three keys together.
- Sometimes it gets confused and you can only type Ctrl- keys; non Ctrl- keys don't send anything until you pop-up then dismiss the Sym pop up. This is with the Ctrl on-screen button not highlighted at any time.
Still, we persist. I've used much worse terminals!
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