Why ansi-xterm you may ask. Well, I started to use vim after it started to support syntax highlighting. I'm a vi person and do not like GUI editors (although I code in Motif all the time). I like lean, mean fast editor that runs on xterms. I used to use vile (it's a fine editor). But syntax highlighting helps a great deal in my coding, so I had to switch to vim. vim uses ANSI color support of various xterms for syntax highlighting. I used to use mxterm (an xterm with motif hack) which supports ANSI colors, but the color supporting code was buggy. So I switched to rxvt for that. But it's kind of slow on text selection with mouse and does not have cool scrollbar. Then I found ansi- xterm. Supports 16 colors (more than enough for my need).

ansi-xterm uses Xaw and I hate Xaw scrollbar. So I compiled and linked it with libneXtaw. neXtaw is nice but the scrollbar was inheriting the background color of the window, which was terrible in my case (I use white background and blue foreground all my life. Therefore white scrollbar was loosing 3D shadows and looked just horrible.). As I do not know much about the toolkit (I know motif well), it was difficult to modify the ansi- xterm code to specify a color for scrollbar.

So I took the scrollbar.c comes with mxterm and replaced the one comes with ansi-xterm. Also added my own hack so that scrollbar color can be set via X resources. It turned out that in my sub-conscious my mind I was always wanting a motif scrollbar on my xterm :).

Screenshot: vim editing hello.c in ansi-xterm with motif scrollbar

Download

• Source
  File:	xterm_177_motif.tar.gz
  Size:	613358 bytes
  MD5 Checksum:	b49c66cf9665ef9165b685bf2394a021
  Last updated:	Jul-13-2003

  Source
  File:	ansi-xterm-R6-motif-sb-p1.README
  Size:	2987 bytes
  MD5 Checksum:	89313e4b3157d9122bd7d3d6df5a0a4c
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• Statically built Linux binary built on RH 5.4:

  Binary for Linux
  File:	mansi_xterm_Linux2.0.36.gz
  Size:	781569 bytes
  MD5 Checksum:	4cc56acdcb8b13654adc0d2ca2f048fd
  Last updated:	?

• Dynamically built Solaris binary:

  Binary for Solaris
  File:	mansi_xterm_Sol_5.6.gz
  Size:	97827 bytes
  MD5 Checksum:	a757f3224f4b16762b56c1a6d8d38009
  Last updated:	?

• Source:

  Source
  File:	ansi-xterm-R6.tgz
  Size:	252005 bytes
  MD5 Checksum:	27c3e7988134922780b97295f882f1f5
  Last updated:	?

  
  
• Patch file:

  Patch
  File:	ansi-xterm-R6-motif-sb-p1.gz
  Size:	14028 bytes
  MD5 Checksum:	a35ea00850621f0f21d5ef169f7f84d0
  Last updated:	?

• Download mxterm.exe for Windows NT/2000:

  mxterm.exe.gz
  File:	Aug-05-2002
  Size:	521185 bytes
  MD5 Checksum:	6be4de528fc7c2d0cade3f7841682091
  Last updated:	?

  
  

Then uncompress it:

    c:\> gunzip mxterm.exe.gz

    c:\> mxterm -sb 
    or
    c:\> mxterm -sb -sbc gray -sl 1000

Screenshot: running in Windows 2000 natively in cygwin X (under KDE2 from a remote Linux box)

URL of this page: http://www.muquit.com/muquit/software/ansi_xterm/ansi_xterm.html