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A comment on Ask HN: What do you look for in a terminal?.

Re:Ask HN: What do you look for in a terminal? by joiguru on Monday September 26, 2011 @02:38AM (#3037879)
I use rxvt-unicode. The 3 things i would love to have is low mem usage, 256 color support, and large scrollback. I love good colorschemes in my vim.
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Re:Ask HN: What do you look for in a terminal? by makecheck on Monday September 26, 2011 @03:37PM (#3040388)
I've implemented 256-color support (if XTerm is requested), and the scrollback can be set to any size though I am working on some other options to make it more flexible.

I haven't optimized for memory usage, but that's a good point. I did compare my launch state against Apple's Terminal using "top", and found that I used roughly the same real memory size but only 1/3 of the virtual memory. There could be many reasons for the difference of course.

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