I can’t seem to find a reference to the name of the actual delete key that bindkey uses (“^?” is the string I guess?). In any case, I’m going to have to get gcc installed to figure out what’s going on I suppose. stty -a showed some interesting stuff, but I really think I’m going to need to go through the Linux Backspace/Delete mini-HOWTO to try to figure out what’s going on. Hmm, maybe not. My problems are w/ remote logins. I think it’s because the stty has erase mapped to ^H on my remote systems but ^? on the Mac. I can map stty’s erase to ^H, but now I have to figure out how to map the delete key to ^H in the Terminal.app. Maybe reading Consistent BackSpace and Delete Configuration will help.
I’m always forgetting the exact syntax for doing single line perl regexs, and for some reason I have to dig forever until I can ever find it again, so here’s a link for myself for doing single line perl regular expressions on multiple files in a directory / subdirectories: Edit HTML With a One-Line Perl Program. If you are writing a one-liner with double quotes, single quotes and dollar signs, it’s probably going to be easier to put the regex in a file and execute that. I got tripped up for a while with that one last time.
Josh Forman has some OS X tips as well.
I have found what I’ve been looking for in OS X and it’s name is bindkey. It’s unfortunate that Apple hasn’t deigned to include any documentation about it, but I finally stumbled on an OS X Hint that let me put 2 and 2 together. I was searching for this functionality earlier and couldn’t figure it out. OS X’s terminal is actually usable now.
bindkey -k delete backward-delete-char
NM, that’s not right. I’m close though…
Looks like templates are back from the dead.
I’ve noticed in my referer logs that I’ve been getting a lot of click throughs coming from searches for names of classmates. Quite a few of them it seems have no web presence at all, so my graduation photo gallery ends up being the top result on searches for their names. That’s just one of those been up too long observations.
New DOCTYPE sniffing in upcoming Mozilla releases – I suppose it makes sense to accomodate Transitional sites by rendering image line-heights a la quirks mode, but you have to wonder why this decision didn’t get made for 1.0. Seems a bit strange.
That NY Times diet article hit /. yesterday. More disucssion at: boingboing, mefi, plastic
The Internet Debacle -An Alternative View – this article by Janis Ian, makes a compelling argument. I know from personal experience that discovering music via file-sharing has directly led to me purchasing albums (and sometimes, complete catalogues) of dozens of artists that I otherwise would have never heard of.
Oh yeah, the compulsory discussion at /.
From the beginning of June, some interesting conversation on Omniweb and Gecko from Hyatt and Hixie. I certainly hope Omniweb gets better. It’s renderer is the shittiest since ns4 and it pisses me off to no end when I see people touting OmniWeb as some great thing. It’s rare these days for a piece of software to get such a violent reaction from me.