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Re:Poll: What is your primary operating system by celerity on Monday April 02, 2012 @07:54AM (#3787585)
Unfortunately, the terminal on OSX is incredibly buggy. Keeps incorrextly coloring commands, randomly failing... Perhaps it's because of the outdated bash they use?
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Re:Poll: What is your primary operating system by danieldk on Monday April 02, 2012 @08:02AM (#3787611)
Ehm, I have been using Terminal.app on OS X for years now, and probably use it > 50% of my time daily (yay for REPLs), and I never really encountered any problem.

The last thing I remember was that in OS X 10.5 I had to change some locale option to have UTF-8 working properly. But that's it.

Could you give examples where Terminal.app fails?

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Re:Poll: What is your primary operating system by celerity on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @10:11PM (#3825595)
Yes. Ignoring the home/end/page up/page down antics, this command screwed up the whole terminal for me.

grep "$search_string" -n -C 3 --color # color bugs out

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Re:Poll: What is your primary operating system by silasb on Monday April 02, 2012 @08:38AM (#3787741)
Look at using iTerm2-beta.
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Re:Poll: What is your primary operating system by moystard on Monday April 02, 2012 @06:33PM (#3790429)
iTerm2 is clearly a great terminal. I find it buggy when using zsh however.
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