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We as developers in the Open Source community should be ashamed people are still using Vim to write LaTeX in Bash running on terminal emulators.

What?! You can take my vim+bash+tmux+urxvt when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!

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> 2014 > not zsh

I used to use zsh (including a giant, customized zshlovers .zhsrc) but I switched back to bash when I started administrating a few different servers. There's just something to be said for feeling totally comfortable and productive with a default environment. I'm also quite comfortable using plain old vi -- something a lot of other vim users can't stand.

Bash has also come a long way recently. I suspect a lot of the excitement over zsh comes from mac users who are stuck with what is now an ancient version of bash.

as long as bash doesn't get the terminal sizing 100% right all the time (and thus display proper entry line/prompt all the time), I'm not going to use it. It always happens eventually, if you spend along time in the shell. There used to be a myriad of little bugs causing this. Not sure how many are left now.

I spend pretty much all day every day in the shell and haven't had problems like that in a long time. I think maybe because at some point the checkwinsize option got turned on by default, at least on ubuntu.

>implying

>not on /g/

i so wish any of the terminal emulators in osx had the scriptability that urxvt has. i miss it all the time :/

I've been frustrated by the lack of iterm2 features in Linux terminal emulators: local autocomplete, tmux integration, etc

I've been frustrated with the lack of Konsole in any other term emulator.

Sure, how is it going back in 1974?

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