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Naming Tabs in Leopard Terminal

Leopard’s terminal was a huge improvement, but issues remain. One of the welcome additions to the terminal was tabs, but there is no way to name them. With a number of tabs open, this can make navigation tedious. If only there were a convenient way to name tabs. Thanks to Erik Anderson there is. Terminal.app […]

Cheat Sheets

Earlier I posted about a ruby gem for a git cheat sheet. What I didn’t realize that it was so much more and way cool to boot. Basically, the ruby gem, cheat, is a command line driven wiki for cheat sheets. The inaugural blog post is here, and the online version of the wiki is […]

Bash Emacs Mode

Navigating the command line on Apple’s terminal can be frustrating. The arrow keys only allow you to move one character at a time. So if you have typed a long command, say:

$ perl texWordCount.pl /Users/markkalderon/Documents/TheHub/Research/Metamerism/Drafts/metamerism.tex

and you realize you have forgotten an option, in this case -T:

$ perl -T texWordCount.pl /Users/markkalderon/Documents/TheHub/Research/Metamerism/Drafts/metamerism.tex

it can be tedious to move […]

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