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Quick tip for developers who use OS X

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Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X

#41
I wish there was a way to make the mouse cursor stand out more when (and only when) it's over the terminal. Maybe it's because I use a dark terminal background, I can hardly ever see the thing.

There's a system wide setting to make the cursor huge, but I don't want a huge cursor everywhere. And there's a terminal preference to make the insertion cursor different, but that's a different cursor, not the mouse cursor.

When do I want to see the mouse cursor? It's useful for things like highlighting a git hash or a few lines of text for copy/paste.

Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X

#42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

If you do "set -o vi" you can also use vi shortcuts, such as ESC-j,k to go up/down the history, 0 to go to the beginning of the line, etc.

You cannot use 'set -o vi' to turn Cocoa text fields into vi-mode.

Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X

#49
The OP tip is nice to have built-in now. If I recall correctly, this was an option that had to be turned on in Terminal Preferences in earlier releases.

Another fave of mine: Ctrl-w for deleting whole "words" at a time. Better than holding that delete key down.

The default shell for OS X appears to be bash (my favorite shell as a Linux user as well).

Just google for Bash shortcuts. Here's a place to start: http://teohm.github.io/blog/2012/01/04/shortcuts-to-move-fas...

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