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From: Dario Niedermann on 14 Sep 2009 00:12
Mike Jones <Not(a)Arizona.Bay> wrote:

> Responding to dae3:
[...]
>> For that matter, I wonder what's wrong with xterm...
>
> A good point, seeing as RXVT's key strength is that is it lighter than
> xterm, and these days thats not even going to cause a ripple on
> today's hardware. MRXVT does do multiple tabs though, and all the
> fancy stuff if you want it.


The [m]rxvt's are indeed somewhat lighter than xterm, but they don't do
unicode(7) which is the encoding most people should be using these
days. That alone makes them nonstarters for me.


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Slackware 12.2.0
Linux 2.6.27.7-crrm i686 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MK-36
GNU/Linux
From: Mike Jones on 14 Sep 2009 05:23
Responding to Dario Niedermann:

> Mike Jones <Not(a)Arizona.Bay> wrote:
>
>> Responding to dae3:
> [...]
>>> For that matter, I wonder what's wrong with xterm...
>>
>> A good point, seeing as RXVT's key strength is that is it lighter than
>> xterm, and these days thats not even going to cause a ripple on today's
>> hardware. MRXVT does do multiple tabs though, and all the fancy stuff
>> if you want it.
>
>
> The [m]rxvt's are indeed somewhat lighter than xterm, but they don't do
> unicode(7) which is the encoding most people should be using these days.
> That alone makes them nonstarters for me.


Hmmm. A key detail. Thats a swing vote thing.

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From: Jim Diamond on 14 Sep 2009 13:18
On 2009-09-14 at 01:12 ADT, Dario Niedermann <M8R-cthw2f(a)spamherelots.com> wrote:
> Mike Jones <Not(a)Arizona.Bay> wrote:
>
>> Responding to dae3:
> [...]
>>> For that matter, I wonder what's wrong with xterm...
>>
>> A good point, seeing as RXVT's key strength is that is it lighter than
>> xterm, and these days thats not even going to cause a ripple on
>> today's hardware. MRXVT does do multiple tabs though, and all the
>> fancy stuff if you want it.

> The [m]rxvt's are indeed somewhat lighter than xterm, but they don't do
> unicode(7) which is the encoding most people should be using these
> days. That alone makes them nonstarters for me.

Try rxvt-unicode if you are interested in an rxvt that does unicode.

Jim
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