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Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X

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Post by koenigdavidmj » Mon, Jan 13, 2014, 3:53 PM UTC

mikeroher wrote: post #6

Two more tips: * Ctrl-a to go to beginning of line * Ctrl-e to go to end of line

A lot of the Emacs shortcuts work in OS X (most of the system) as well as on Linux (bash and other users of readline).

Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X

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Post by jackmaney » Mon, Jan 13, 2014, 3:54 PM UTC

Nice!

Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X

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Post by gatehouse » Mon, Jan 13, 2014, 3:56 PM UTC

mikeroher wrote: post #6

Two more tips: * Ctrl-a to go to beginning of line * Ctrl-e to go to end of line

Yup: http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rluserman.html#...

Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X

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Post by mikeroher » Mon, Jan 13, 2014, 3:56 PM UTC

koenigdavidmj wrote: post #11

mikeroher wrote: post #6

Two more tips: * Ctrl-a to go to beginning of line * Ctrl-e to go to end of line

A lot of the Emacs shortcuts work in OS X (most of the system) as well as on Linux (bash and other users of readline).

I use Vim and was unaware that this shortcut existed. Are there any other Emacs shortcuts which are useful in OSX?

Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X

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Post by grillermo » Mon, Jan 13, 2014, 3:56 PM UTC

Works on iTerm too!

Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X

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Post by pfortuny » Mon, Jan 13, 2014, 3:57 PM UTC

Well, if you do not want to use the mouse, you can always:

Ctrl-e: go to the end of the line Ctrl-r: search backwards (input the text)

and you go to the point where the search begins.

Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X

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Post by rynop » Mon, Jan 13, 2014, 3:57 PM UTC

Nother related tip: command + click on a file in iTerm opens it up. Test it out by doing ls -al then cmd+click on file name.

Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X

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Post by tunnuz » Mon, Jan 13, 2014, 3:58 PM UTC

Type "set -o vi" on your bash, and you can edit your commands with the vi shortcuts.

Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X

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Post by 65a » Mon, Jan 13, 2014, 4:00 PM UTC

mikeroher wrote: post #14

koenigdavidmj wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of the Emacs shortcuts work in OS X (most of the system) as well as on Linux (bash and other users of readline).

I use Vim and was unaware that this shortcut existed. Are there any other Emacs shortcuts which are useful in OSX?

Ctrl-K kill to end of line,

so Ctrl-A Ctrl-K will clear a given field

Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X

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Post by zampano » Mon, Jan 13, 2014, 4:02 PM UTC

mikeroher wrote: post #6

Two more tips: * Ctrl-a to go to beginning of line * Ctrl-e to go to end of line

A couple more:

* ⌘ + ` (tilde key) to switch between different windows of your current application

* ⌘ + l (lowercase L) in most web browsers to highlight the address bar