notes that the 90s brought us white on black terminals and the millenium ushered in the abomination that is black on white

claws at white on black

notes that order matters with the operator "on"

f00li5h has found his very own non-distributive operator!

actually, thats non-commutative. but its non-distributive too.

its non-associative too!

what a nasty operator!

and the white on blue in windows--

lol I've been thinking about this today

nowadays people complain about eye strain when someone uses white/light green on black

exactly the same way people used to complain about eye strain when black on white started to become popular (windows 1 times more or less)

yeah... I think it's a question of getting used to something

I have had green on black terminals for ages!

I tried to eschew X entirely but I couldn't cope with the low-res console.

The framebuffer doesn't work right on this silly hardware.

`Konsole`.

urxvt rules

I'm using uxrvt but it doesn't send some things properly, like ctrl+arrows

urxvt rules!

Altreus, ctrl+arrows works for me... When exactly do you have problem with it?

mlterm is quite nice, too.

gleber: the situation is in vim across an ssh session but not in screen.

ctrl+arrow seems to be capital O, d

I don't use vim... Emacs works without problems via ssh with urxvt

But there is a problem with ctrl+arrows when Emacs is run in screen

I generally don't use screen for Emacs, so it is not an issue for me

ctrl+v, ctrl+← explains that ctrl+← is ^[Od, which is where the O and the d come from.

However, somewhere between here and vim, that seems to be losing the control character

Or, vim is not correctly mapping ^[Od to ctrl+←. But it was fine using gnome-terminal.

gnome-terminal sends it as ^[[1;5D

Emacs (via screen) treats ctrl+← as sequence "M-O d"

away the pass-codes to the defense mainframe

M should stand for 'Meta', which is alt. How do you insert a control structure like that in emacs?

terminals are fun... and is planning a microitx project to make them more fun still