[PLUG] Terminals

[John Jordan]

On 17 Mar 2006, at 22:49, Michael M wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 15:19 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > I use gnome-teerminal, the default on Ubuntu. I know there are other
> > terminals I could use, I just have no experience with them. Is there
> > one that has like a database where I can save commands to pop in
> > later? I mean more than the up and down arrows, because they don't
> > hold commands after I shut down the computer. Something like a
> > pop-up addressbook in a mail client is what I am thinking of. It
> > would be more convenient than opening my text file in gedit.
> 
> I don't know if what you're requesting is exists, but what I do when I
> want a quick view of some notes somewhere is just cat the file.  If
> you keep a cheat sheet of commands in a text file in your home drive,
> it's a lot faster to do cat ~/cheatsheet than to open gedit.  And if
> you want to edit the file, it's faster to do it with vim (or nano,
> emacs, whatever) from within the terminal than to open gedit.  Myself,
> I'm finding fewer and fewer reasons to open gedit at all. :-)
> 
> The thing I like about gnome terminal, even though it's slower and
> hungrier than xterm or aterm, is tabs.  Inevitably, I end up with
> three or four tabs open in almost any instance.  It's like tabbed
> browsing ... once you get used to it, it's hard to live without it.  I
> usually keep any files I know I'm going to want to refer to and
> possibly edit open in a tab.

Thanks for that info. I tried cat and it does work great. However, I 
still have to type "cat CheatSheet" and then copy and paste from 
it. Still, cat is faster than opening gedit.

And thanks for reminding me about tabs. I've known that gnome-
terminal had tabs for a long time, but I never bothered to figure out 
how to use them. I've just been opening a new terminal window 
each time. So now I took the time to explore gnome-terminal and 
I'll be using tabs. Much more efficient.

I'd still like something where I could just point and click to select 
often-used commands. Something like bookmarks in Firefox. As 
efficient as Linux users have made the command line, surely 
there's something out there. Maybe a "terminal" is not what I 
should be looking for.