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Terminal.app often feels sort of clunky to me. I use iTerm2 instead--being able to split panes is really nice (no, I don't want to use tmux).

The default userland is kind of annoying, in that a lot of utilities are BSD ones and aren't compatible with my imported-from-Linux scripts, aliases, etc., but that's just an install of coreutils away.

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By the way, if you want to get the benefits of tmux with respect to attach, detach, but want to manage splits and tabs using the Terminal, iTerm2 has you covered:

http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/wiki/TmuxIntegration

It does, but I'm still not a fan. I find its attach/detach on remote servers a little wonky.

Yeah, I get annoyed too when people use Linuxisms in scripts because they don't ever run right on FreeBSD.

"ls --color=auto" is not what I consider a "Linuxism", it's what I consider "basic functionality" (and yes I'm quite aware of BSD ls's -G, but it doesn't honor my other custom settings). I have no interest in rewriting all of my rc files and scripts to support BSD tools because doing so is a significant investment of time better spent elsewhere, moreso because of the simpler, easier option of installing GNU coreutils and findutils.

I'm glad you could migrate your snark from Reddit, but it doesn't do a lot for a real conversation.

So what's wrong with it is that it feels clunky to you...

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