#terminal.app

How to: Mousing and Page-Up/Down in Terminal for Mac OS X #it #dev #development

Mousing and Page-Up/Down in Terminal for Mac OS X

Compared to *nix, Terminal.app seems pretty lame. How can I get it to:

Send Page-Up/Down to an application, instead of just scrolling the terminal output

Mouse around in vim. set mouse=a isn’t helping.

All of the above while SSH’d into another machine

Answer [by Kelbizzle]: Mousing and Page-Up/Down in Terminal for Mac OS X

OMG facepalmsapple…

Fixed: What's the difference between ^C and ^D for UNIX/Mac OS X terminal? #development #answer #it

What’s the difference between ^C and ^D for UNIX/Mac OS X terminal?

When I try to stop something, I use ^C and sometimes ^D in terminal.

What’s the difference between the two? Why some program doesn’t respond to ^C, but ^D. Why the Terminal.app just quits when I use ^D?

Answer [by Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]: What’s the difference between ^C and ^D for UNIX/Mac OS X terminal?

CtrlC tells the…

How-to: How to get Mac OS X Terminal.app and screen/vim scrolling to play nice? #programming #solution #dev

How to get Mac OS X Terminal.app and screen/vim scrolling to play nice?

OSX 10.6.3 Terminal.app

Am a pretty dedicated screen user. Terminal.app line buffer and/or scroll does not seem to work for me. That is while in screen anything that goes past the top of the frame is gone, can’t scroll back to. This seems to work ok in other terminal apps gnome, cygwin. Perhaps this is a shell env, config,…

How-to: Mac OS X – Could not start Terminal.app – shell has illegal value #programming #computers #dev

Mac OS X – Could not start Terminal.app – shell has illegal value

I can not run the Terminal.app after rolling back my system from time machine.

Mac OS X Version 10.6.2

It displays the following error. “Your are not authorized to run this application” “The administrator has set your shell to an illegal value”

After that I have deleted the file ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist

But…

Fix: Hostname issue in Mac OS X Lion #solution #development #answer

Hostname issue in Mac OS X Lion

I’ve recently bought myself one of the new mid-2011 Mac Minis with OS X Lion, I’m completely new to Mac OS but I’ve used linux quite a bit before. The problem I’m having is that at the terminal my hostname is displayed as (blanked some of the numbers out) this is basically “unknown-(ethernet mac addr)”

unknown-28-00-00-00-00-8f:~ michael$

In linux I would have…

How to: Setting iTerm2 as the default terminal (OSX Lion) #answer #it #computers

Setting iTerm2 as the default terminal (OSX Lion)

I would like to set iTerm2 instead of terminal.app as my default terminal.

Go2Shell for example let you open a terminal to the current directory in Finder. I want to ba able to use iterm2 instad of terminal.app.

I didn’t find any answer on the official documentation.

Thanks for your help.

Update: ShellTo is a great alternative to Go2Shell and…

Answer: How can I install 7zip so I can run it from Terminal on OS X #fix #programming #answer

How can I install 7zip so I can run it from Terminal on OS X

I would like to be able to run 7zip from the command line on Mac. Does anyone have instructions on how to set this up?

Answer [by Daniel Beck]: How can I install 7zip so I can run it from Terminal on OS X

On the download page of 7-zip, there are several options for OS X. Unfortunately, they seem to be with a GUI, or not available at…

Fixed: How to have full directory path always shown in mac terminal (like linux terminal) #it #solution #computers

How to have full directory path always shown in mac terminal (like linux terminal)

In my ubuntu terminal I have always current directory shown completely. Just like this:

blabla@blublu:~/music/my_album/classical/beethoven$

But in my Mac (Mac OS X 10.6.5) terminal does not show the full path and it is like this:

blabas-MacBook-Pro:classical beethoven$

Is there anyway that I change mac…