Eddie

[Christian Brunschen]

On 13 Sep 2007, at 00:41, William Ehrich wrote:

> Eddie
>  <http://www.el34.com/>
> is what Terminal.app should have been, almost MPW.
> (Based on playing with it for a few minutes.)

If you're looking for something MPW-like – an integrated development  
system that includes a shell-like component – then Terminal.app  
obviously doesn't offer that functionality. However, this doesn't  
mean that Terminal.app needs to change, or that it 'should have been'  
anything different; simply that it is not the right solution for your  
problem.

Terminal.app is a good terminal emulator; it focuses on one thing and  
does that one thing quite well.

Note that MPW was essentially an attempt to create, in a single  
application, a development environment essentially equivalent to the  
combination of a number of terminal emulator windows and text editors  
and possibly other developer utilities, as commonly in use on Unix  
workstations running some flavour of the X Window system. Terminal  
emulators form only a part of that environment (though of course you  
can run text editors, like Emacs, in terminal emulator windows).  
Eddie, in turn, is an attempt at recreating MPW. So you should  
perhaps not be surprised that Terminal.app, whose purpose it is to  
offer terminal emulation only, does not offer the complete experience  
of an application like MPW or Eddie that attempts to provide an  
environment of which terminal emulation was only one part. But  
neither does that mean that Terminal.app is in any way deficient in  
that regard. So while I don't particularly care about Eddie, I  
strongly disagree with your assertion that it is 'what Terminal.app'  
should have been. Terminal.app certainly has some deficiencies; but  
what Terminal.app should be is simply better at being a terminal  
emulator; no more, no less.

> -- Bill Ehrich

// Christian Brunschen

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