Trying MacTelnet 4.0 as Terminal Replacement
This morning I saw that MacTelnet 4.0 was out, and while I'd never heard of it, I wanted to give it a look-see, to see if there has been anything I've missed. I'm always on the look-out for a Terminal.app replacement. I'd settle for getting rid of the scroll bars, but that's not in the cards - at least not today.
Anyway, the MacTelnet 4.0 screen is pretty standard, but there's a border around the screen that is a little annoying. You can't get rid of the scroll bars, and there's no anti-aliasing of the text or manually setting the horizontal and vertical spacing. All these are in Terminal.app and iTerm. Seems that MacTelnet is going for a different audience.
I will say that I like that it's got TEK 4014 graphics. I spent a while in grad school creating a TEK 4014 terminal emulator only to see that VersaTerm on the Mac was far better, and did everything I needed. Still, there appears to be a different audience for this app than the iTerm/Terminal.app crowd. This seems to be for the larger font size, more GUI-based guys. Full screen seems nicely supported, but I'd never use that. Extensibility with Python is nice, but I'd never use that either.
So I'm interested to see where they are taking this, but for now, Terminal.app is still the winner, and iTerm a close second. We'll have to see what MacTelnet evolves into.