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Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X

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Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X

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Post by veemjeem »

pidg wrote: post #25
artursapek wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched to iTerm a long time ago and never looked back. I recommend it.

iTerm 2 is brilliant, I can't imagine using the default Terminal for anything, ever.

I've found iTerm2 to be extremely slow on large buffers compared to Terminal.

Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X

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Post by niggler »

[deleted] wrote: post #49
niggler wrote: post #21

I think the title needs to be amended to say 'OS X Mountain Lion' because the bug is not reproducible in Lion or Snow Leopard ...

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I try to avoid upgrading OSX. When a new version comes out, I wait for a hardware refresh and just get a new Mac (Apple has a nasty habit of disregarding backwards compatibility, and it's really nice to be able to do stuff like run older powerpc programs)

EDIT: the [deleted] comment was 'I miss snow leopard'

Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X

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Post by mh- »

zbowling wrote: post #45

Everything crashing: - Skype (type and right mouse click) - Sparrow (type and wait) - Chrome (address bar) - Safari (address bar) - Tweetbot - Twitter.app - Mac App Store (search bar) - Base (any textbox) - terminal (in the preferences screen) Not crashing: - SublimeText Pretty much each and every text box on the entire system.

Add Messages.app to that list, I discovered as I stupidly tried to explain how to repro it to someone..

Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X

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Post by ricardobeat »

0x0 wrote: post #17
derleth wrote: post #10

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> I wish they'd just fix the bug where typing "~" crashes Terminal.app (depending on your keyboard language) :( How did this bug survive the testing process? Wait. I think I just answered my own question.

It's quite terrible. I even reported it on bugreport.apple.com on 10.8.0, but neither 10.8.1 nor 10.8.2 fixed it. I can't believe there's no-one at Apple using i18n keyboard layouts and Terminal.app. It's not like typing "~" is an uncommon event on the command line.... Meanwhile, VLC fixed the same bug (typing ~ in the VLC.app UI textfields) in about 30 minutes.

Doesn't apply to US-International keyboards, I use "~" all the time.

Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X

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Post by 0x0 »

ricardobeat wrote: post #56
0x0 wrote: post #17

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It's quite terrible. I even reported it on bugreport.apple.com on 10.8.0, but neither 10.8.1 nor 10.8.2 fixed it. I can't believe there's no-one at Apple using i18n keyboard layouts and Terminal.app. It's not like typing "~" is an uncommon event on the command line.... Meanwhile, VLC fixed the same bug (typing ~ in the VLC.app UI textfields) in about 30 minutes.

Doesn't apply to US-International keyboards, I use "~" all the time.

Did you try some other i18n keyboard layouts, like Norwegian or Swedish?
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