Comments on: macos vs linux

By: david

david — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:20:15 +0000

export CLICOLOR=yes

may color your terminal.

Aquamacs can be configured easily, via the Options menu. You don’t have to have it open new buffers in new frames. You can also reassign the Command key to meta via the `mac-command-modifier’ variable (setq mac-command-modifier ‘meta) in your .emacs.

For a terminal, I recommend iTerm – it’s being actively developed at the moment. ^C works fine for me in Terminal.app and in iTerm.

By: at

at — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:48:02 +0000

Check out this page for cloring your terminal: http://www.mactips.org/archives/2005/08/02/color-your-os-x-command-prompt/

By: lucmars

lucmars — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 11:08:31 +0000

One can’t really compare MacOS and Linux, excepted about the look & feel. Beside that, OSX is the kind of *NIX which has been stripped down to stay in line with its GUI used customer. Linux has grown in the opposite direction without hidding anything.
Nonetheless, compared to Linux, one can really laugh about some Apple’s annoucement, simply because the new feature was already there in the *NIX systeme, like workplace for example which will be part of the next release. Mainly, one can do more thing in OSX with the command-line than the front-end allows indeed.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 21:15:10 +0000

Awesome, thanks. I’ll fiddle with the terminal emulator settings a bit. To be fair I usually reconfigure gnome-terminal to my tastes as well.

By: cheers

cheers — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 19:14:01 +0000

some tips & tricks that may smooth your OS X experience?

the unpronouncable symbol is “command” or “the apple key” depending on who you talk to. ( I call it “loopy”, but I’m just strange).

The terminal emulator can be ackward, but there are things you can do to make it more comfortable. From the Terminal Window, choose “Window Settings” and configure to your hearts content. One highlight is to select “close window” on the “When the shell exits:” radio button. Keep in mind, you have to hit the big ugly “Use Settings As Default” button at the bottom if you want these to hold for anything but your current window. Changing that setting, and changing the color scheme to be white on black has cleared up 90% of my unhappiness with terminal.

Mind you, that doesn’t mean it’s configuration isn’t ackward, and un-Mac OS X-ish, but it IS there, at least.

if you’re looking for more linux-y commands & tools, you might try wandering past the fink project.(http://fink.sourceforge.net/)

As for UI inconsistancy, well, if you look around a bit, you’ll find that many people rail on Apple’s UI inconsistancies. :/ It’s up to developers to be “good” about their UI, and sometimes the mothership doesn’t set the best example.

I hope that at least some of this was a bit helpful!