Terminator is nice, but for me have one bug concept.

Published May 24th, 2008 by Emanuele Gentili

During the Ubuntu Developer Summit I decided to take a look to terminator and I was surprised to found the split function of division conceptually different from vim.

Me and Alberto Milone worked on the terminator python script to reverse the function, in my opinion incorrect. (Bug #234244)

We have written a patch for intrepid and hardy arguing that the correct interpretation of the division was that of VIM.

Terminator and VIM need as soon as possible a common guideline to decide “HOW TO SPLIT”
(horizontally and vertically) because now the function are inverted and there is a strange conflict.

Anyway Terminator Rocks! :)

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6 Comments a “Terminator is nice, but for me have one bug concept.”

  1. 1

    Anonymous says:

    Ion has vertical and horizontal splitting the same as Terminator. Of course, there’s probably no overlap between Ion users and Terminator users, since there’s no real point in having application-level splitting if you’re using Ion.

    May 25th, 2008 alle 12:43 am
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    TheGZeus says:

    Hmm… I’ve never used the splitting in VIM, Terminator(don’t want to be running half(all?) of gnomelibs for a terminal, I’ll use rxvt-unicode, thanks) nor have I run Ion.
    However, I’m using StumpWM, which is the new Ratpoison(rewrite in Common Lisp to allow user customisation and on-the-fly hacking) and regularly use Emacs.
    Emacs and StumpWM/Ratpoison use similar screen-splitting methods. does GNU Screen allow screen splitting? I don’t think so, but I can’t remember… Again, I’m running rxvt, so I’m not exactly slamming my 2 gigs of RAM by running a few more instances.

    ‘Different’ is not always ‘wrong.’
    That’s why Emacs and VIM are both widely used(as well as nano, JOE, elvis…).

    May 25th, 2008 alle 4:10 am
  1. 3

    TheGZeus says:

    Does it split like Emacs instead? That would, in fact, make MORSE sense, since it uses GNome integration. GNome is a GNU project, and Emacs is the official GNU text editor.

    Different’ isn’t always wrong.

    May 25th, 2008 alle 4:12 am
  1. 4

    Onkar says:

    I was in fact going to file a bug upstream. But considering that a discussion is already going on, I will just wait. :-)

    And yes terminator rocks on any screen >= 17″. :-D
    For smaller screens it doesn’t make sense to have more than 3 splits. :-(

    May 25th, 2008 alle 8:07 am
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    Onkar says:

    I was going to log a bug upstream for this. But seeing that a discussion is going on, I have dropped the idea.

    And yes, terminator rocks on any screen >= 17″. :-D
    For smaller screens it doesn’t make sense to have more than 3 splits. :-(

    May 25th, 2008 alle 8:11 am
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    Anthony Batchelor says:

    Having never used Vim, and currently loving Terminator, I too think that vertical and horizontal are the wrong way round

    May 27th, 2008 alle 10:44 am

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