2014/11/13

Customize MAC OS Terminal

To be honest, I am not satisfy with the default terminal on MAC OS X. Below are my suggestions for heavy working with terminal on OSX.

ITERM2

Make sure you have installed iTerm2 for replacing the default terminal application.

Most of my works rely on VIM. However, the mouse option will not work on default terminal. So, I change to iTerm2.

Terminal Sexy

Here provides you bunch of the colour profiles for your terminal. Personally, I love hybird, pretty and pastel and x dot share.

BetterTouchTool

Besides the configuration on iTerm, I need short cuts for calling out, maximising, minimising, etc the iTerm application. I am using this for achieving this purpose.

Word jumping

Besides commands from here, I have setup another commands for word jumping on terminal.
Answer from superuser helps me a lot.

2014/11/09

What is macport

Macport is a package manager tools on MAC OSX. It works like what apt-get does on Debian system.

Tricks

To save my time in the futures, here are experiences which learnt from painful try and error process.

BASH AUTO competition

There is no auto completion (IE Tab will not work) by default. Please read this for setting up an auto completion.

List of common commands

port search PKG or port search —regex ‘PKG‘

A command for you to search packages.

port install PKG

Install a package from macport

port uninstall PKG

Uninstall a package from macport

port select PKG VERSION

Select a version for a package. Sometime, packages come with more than one version (py27, py3). This command allows you to select which version will be used when you call python instead of calling python2.7 explicitly.

man port

A command for reading the manual page of port.

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