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		tptacek on March 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I ended up with Mac I'm interested in your reasoning for why Terminal.app is embarrassing. It seems significantly better than, say, rxvt to me.

stock_toaster on March 6, 2013 | [–]

I think Terminal.app used to be pretty darn bad (leopard/snow-leopard era).

I find the current version (in mountain lion) to be quite reasonable though.

nicholassmith on March 6, 2013 | [–]

Agreed, I spend a significantly large amount of time with 5-8 terminal tabs open and I've never been bugged by it. It's just very feature bare compared to iTerm.

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