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>>>>> "mwoehlke" == mwoehlke  <mwoehlke AT tibco DOT com> writes:

    mwoehlke> Awesome?  It appears to be xterm 

No, it's rxvt.  Different program.
                                               
    mwoehlke> which needs an X server 

True for xterm; false for rxvt.
                                      
    mwoehlke> And I see exactly zero ways in which it is an
    mwoehlke> improvement over Console.

For Emacs users, the keyboard is somewhat better: various combinations
of keys that include Escape actually get sent to Emacs.  I forget
which though.

-- 
Paul Graham is right.
        --Shriram Krishnamurthi


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