Comments | nornagon: OS X: Day 1

nornagon

OS X: Day 1

Feb 07, 2009 12:04

OS X is really very pretty. Apple's stuff has a cohesion that GNOME and KDE generally lack, each possibly due to the existence of the other.

After fixing up the Terminal.app options (the 10.5.6 settings dialog makes rather more sense than previous versions), I set up Spaces. As an avid xmonad user, I'm trying to make OS X behave in a vaguely ( Read more... )

quicksilver, osx

Comments 4

anonymous February 7 2009, 05:30:07 UTC

Welcome to the dark side ( ... )

nornagon February 7 2009, 05:40:00 UTC

The rationale behind installing Debian in its own partition is that I can boot into Debian alone when I need to. I haven't installed it yet, though, so I might end up scrapping that partition and growing my main one.

I dropped my .vimrc from Debian straight into OS X, I suspect I have something in there which is causing the blinking.

Thanks for the advice :)

Jeremy

A few things ext_165292 February 9 2009, 01:20:43 UTC

The reason for your blinking text in vim is probably due to your vim colorscheme using more than an 8 colour palette, unfortunately Terminal.app doesn't have 256 colour support, which annoys the crap out of me. You can use iTerm to get this, but iTerm sometimes has weird issues.

My solution to terminals that I've settled on, is I now run xmonad in X11, and use plain xterms.

I haven't used Spaces for a while, so this may be fixed, but I've had it lose entire windows before with no way of getting them back easily (except for disabling/re-enabling it).

Since Leopard make Spotlight very fast, I haven't bothered with QuickSilver.

You should take a look at macports if you want a package manager to install various open source stuff with.

Ctrl-A/Ctrl-E andrep February 9 2009, 05:33:22 UTC

You can use C-a and C-e in 95% of applications as a substitute for Home/End if you're an Emacs boy. (To be more specific: Cocoa applications, or "things that use NSTextView's key bindings stuff, such as a WebView").

Cocoa's text system is amazingly flexible, customisable and rich: see Jacob Rus's articles for some really in-depth info: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/cocoa-text.html. (I also can't live without TextExtras; email me if you want a GC-capable version of it that'll work with Xcode and other apps.)