Naturally die-hard xterm fans have a way to do just about anything in xterm but for such simple tasks Terminal.app provides a feature that's easy to use for mere mortals. With Terminal.app it's easy to customise the title bar to show the current process, tty, window size etc. Custom info picked up by Terminal.app from the execution context." xterm-color" also works but some features such as visual bell (used by vi) will be missing. emacs, lynx ( Fink dist), GNU ls, all in glorious three-bit colour. The simplest way to enable colour in Terminal.app is to set TERM to " dtterm".
Yes, that's a surprise, considering all the effort that's gone into hacking vt100-based colour termcaps etc. Terminal.app emulates an extended set of the VTxxx series commands, closely resembling dtterm.Now that Terminal.app has some "serious" competition in the form of xterm as part of the X11 release there could be some saving graces keeping Terminal.app still relevant. Speeding it up: Set the shell to /bin/bash -l and run sudo rm -rf /private/var/log/asl/*.asl to remove Apple System Log files it insists on skimming upon launch. 3 min read Terminal.app is not your grandfather's VT100 terminal.
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