Browsing through the features and technology of the fast-approaching Leopard, I happened across the UNIX page and a mention of “Terminal 2,” an updated version of the bundled term application. Here’s the spiel:
The Terminal application in Leopard takes advantage of the operating system’s native text and graphics capabilities, using Input Manager and CoreText to fully support non-English languages. The updated layout engine provides very fast rendering of ASCII, ISO, and Unicode text, and a new user interface gives users around the world the ability to harness the power of UNIX. A simplified inspector and integrated settings pane make it easy to change the look and feel of Terminal.
New user interface, eh?
Now, I spend a lot of time in the CLI environment, although it’s currently shifted over to iTerm due in large part to its tabbed windows. Lo and behold, check out the top of Terminal 2’s window:
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http://www.lullabot.com/I’ve updated the site to the newest version of Drupal, and (after some tweaking) most things seem to be working. I’m leaving it with the default theme for now until I decide what look I want to go for.
Let me know if you run into any issues.
By the way, thanks to this Lullabot video for a step-by-step process that makes things relatively painless.
If you encounter a
Call to undefined function module_exist() ...
error, check out this drupal.org article.
UPDATE the old bookmarks are broken at the moment — I’ll have to fix ‘em another time.
UPDATE #2 bookmarks are fixed.
Thu Sep 20 12:23:36 PDT 2007
Tracked down an easy method to insert the current date (timestamp) into a Vim document:
:r !date
Producing:
Thu Sep 20 12:24:50 PDT 2007
http://princ3.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/insert-current-date-in-vim/
Should probably set up a single key command for that, maybe an F key.
Thu Sep 20 15:36:40 PDT 2007
Within TextMate, short of creating an internal command, the easiest way is to use the Text > Execute Line and Replace with Result and then using the /bin/date utility by simply typing date and then the ctrl-option-r shortcut
