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Intelligent Vertical Scrolling - Terminator's scrollbar won't keep jumping when there's output if you've deliberately scrolled back to look at part of the history, but as soon as you scroll back to the bottom again, it will resume
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on his own between 21 April 2004 and 28 May 2004; roughly a month of development time. Elliott Hughes took Phil's terminal emulation and used it as a base upon which he could experiment with advanced
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Unlimited Scrollback - Terminator does not throw away output when it scrolls off the top of the screen, nor when it reaches any arbitrary limit. The user must manually clear the scrollback.
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Find - Terminator provides you with a find function, so users can search for text and regular expressions within their terminal (including the scrollback) in the style of
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of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be
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Terminator on Mac OS X showing live search highlighting and UTF-8 capabilities, courtesy of Markus Kuhn's UTF-8-demo.txt and
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Character Handling - Many terminal emulators translate tab characters into strings of spaces. If a section of text is then
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Terminator was originally written by Phil Norman, who produced a more-or-less usable replacement for
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features and continues to actively develop Terminator. Martin Dorey ported Terminator to
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Number Reinterpretation - Terminator will recognize numbers in a variety of
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This article is about the Java terminal emulator. Not to be confused with
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as the current selection, and add informational menu items to the
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Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing
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