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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: rxvt vs. xterm (Re: Re: font path [WAS: xterm menu])
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:08:58
Message-Id: o39i84$aov$1@blaine.gmane.org
In Reply to: rxvt vs. xterm (Re: [gentoo-user] Re: font path [WAS: xterm menu]) by lee
1 On 2016-12-19, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
2 > Ian Zimmerman <itz@×××××××.net> writes:
3 >
4 >> I use rxvt because it doesn't have a huge part that nobody uses.
5 >
6 > Which part is that,
7
8 One that comes to mind is emulation of a Tektronix 4014 storage-tube
9 vector-graphics terminal.
10
11 > and how does it hurt?
12
13 In practice, it usually doesn't. But, it annoys purists and/or the
14 security conscious who don't like to run programs that contain huge
15 blocks of code (possibly containing security holes) to implement
16 unused features they don't want.
17
18 --
19 Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I once decorated my
20 at apartment entirely in ten
21 gmail.com foot salad forks!!

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