[Podboy]

I don't use any of the shells that come with Irix, I compile the RXVT source code and use that. 

rxvt is a terminal emulator, a replacement for winterm, xwsh, or xterm. Shells are shells, and if one doesn’t choose wisely and get their dot-files in order, there’s a lot of convenience and efficiency squandered. Most of that stuff enabled by default in today’s shells, wasn’t back then.

I remember really appreciating all the work the designers put into gui-ifying so many basic tasks. It was a major draw for me coming from macs. Using Unix, though, in my workflows on all unicies always required a winterm/xterm or two to execute development and sysadmin commands. End users come in all color and sizes. Most of the time it felt quicker and easier to run vi or jot on a /long/path/toa/file than to navigate and click in fm. Fm was REALLY slick at the time, though.


I’m back on a Mac nowadays, and still find myself in a terminal window at least once a day. Hard to break the habit.