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No one uses Terminal. iTerm ftw ;)
I use iTerm as well but besides from splitting panes and broadcasting I don't see the benefits. Why do you use it?
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More: - C-u to kill (cut) from current location to beginning of the line - C-k to kill (cut) from current location to end of line - C-w to kill (cut) from current location to beginning of word - C-y to paste (copied / cut) lines - C-l to clear screen (I use the shit out of this) - Ctrl + shift + '-' (holding ctrl, shift, minus at the same time), for undo. That is it. EDIT: Damn it, I didn't realize I was saying a bun…
Pressing ESC and then _ will insert the last argument of the last line. Repeat to go up in the history. If you go through the command history and press CTRL-o on a line it will be executed and the command on the commandline will be replaced by the next line in the history.
With a numeric prefix argument N, it grabs the Nth-from-the-end argument of the previous command, so M-3 M-. grabs the 3rd-from-last argument from the previous command.
Another really useful command is the open $ open filename.png $ open . $ open -e filename.txt $ open -a Pixen filename.png The first command will open the file with the default application. Open . will open the current directory in finder, which I find very helpful. The -e flag will open the file in textedit. The -a will open the file in the given application name.
Also very useful for similar use cases is qlmanage. $ qlmanage -p
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C-a : beginning line, C-e end line, alt+f forward word (unless system shortcut for file menu), alt+b back word, C-k kill line, C-b back char, C-f forward char. At least in my current setup, C-w yank and C-y paste works as well. Immensely helpful. Sometimes at+left/right does forward/ back word depending on the terminal emu. Note most of these keystrokes are valid in nano as well.
More: - C-u to kill (cut) from current location to beginning of the line - C-k to kill (cut) from current location to end of line - C-w to kill (cut) from current location to beginning of word - C-y to paste (copied / cut) lines - C-l to clear screen (I use the shit out of this) - Ctrl + shift + '-' (holding ctrl, shift, minus at the same time), for undo. That is it. EDIT: Damn it, I didn't realize I was saying a bun…
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or gnome-open. On Windows the equivalent is start (e.g. start C:\ )
I use start all the time, but also frequently curse at its stupid argument grammar and its interaction with auto-quoting on auto-completion. For example, type start C:\Doc Next, hit tab to get start "C:\Documents and Settings" Now, hit return, and watch a new command window open with title "C:\Documents and Settings". Reason? If the first argument is a quoted string, it is used as the title of the window being opened…
explorer "C:\Documents and Settings"
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Sorry, but this is laughable. Keyboard shortcuts are far more useful and consistent across applications in OS X. I'm failing to understand how you could form this opinion...which shortcuts / programs don't meet your expectations? I guess I can sum this up by saying OS X has an additional modifier key than Windows, so you basically have 33% more power right out of the gate. The "Windows Key" is nearly useless.
And OS X doesn't steal Control for menu shortcuts. Control-V (literal) is not the same as Command-V (paste), Control-Z (suspend) is not the same as Command-Z (undo), and so on. X Window software used to get this right, too; Unix workstations generally had another modifier (e.g. Meta, diamond on Suns) since they knew better than to hijack keys people would type in a terminal. It's only the this-is-finally-the-year…
The blame lies with "desktop environments", not X.
X has plenty of its own problems without getting Gnome's problems heaped on top.
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> It's only the this-is-finally-the-year-of-Linux-on-the-desktop crowd slavishly imitating Microsoft's mistakes that screwed it up.
Most of the recent garbage they've cargo-culted from Apple (and common software for OS X), not Microsoft. Witness the really shitty reimplementation of Growl, the really shitty (and shamefully unmandated) window menu bar -> system menu bar consolidation.
After making the switch to OS X in the last couple years after living in Linux and Windows before that, I think it's objective to say that keyboard shortcuts in OS X are much worse in both ease of use and consistency across applications.
I wouldn't call it objective, but I've been using osx exclusively for 3 years now and shortcuts still come slower than windows, primarily because on windows I can press control and any key using just one hand by using my pinky for the control key.
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And that's why C-e C-u is burned into my hands :^)
Is it any different from C-a C-k ? Both seem to stuff things into the kill ring (or whatever it's called in bash). I guess lots of people leave C-a as the default escape key for screen.