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>gnome-terminal or konsole? These are my killer apps. And I won't use other platforms because they don't have them.

So wait, is it your love of these specific terminal emulators or of the shell?

OSX has terminal.app

> OSX has terminal.app

In fairness it took until Leopard (as I recall) to support tabs and still doesn't support 256 colors. (It will in Lion apparently.[1]).

[1] http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/features.html#unix

Terminal.app definitely still has problems in Snow Leopard; especially the lack of 256 color support. I've switched to using iTerm2, a replacement terminal emulator, and it's solved most of my complaints about Terminal.app.

Hopefully Lion rolls a lot of those fixes into Terminal.app.

[1] http://www.wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.4010

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