mac is based on bsd which is unix... Most flavors have these utilities standard and the mac is no exception. On 21-Jul-09, at 5:10 AM, James & Nash wrote:
> > Hi Alex and all, > > Aren't VIM and Nano Linux command line tools? I'm sure I've seen > them when > I've played with Linux? You can port these to the Mac I take it how > cool. > > Take care > > James > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alex Jurgensen" <asquare...@gmail.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:39 AM > Subject: Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility > > >> >> Hi, >> Gary, >> >> I use it all day with varied success. Nano is a new eddition to my >> toolbox and it seems to have a few qwerks, but nothing major. I also >> used to use VIM, but found it crashed a lot with VO. >> >> You are correct that interacting and moving the VO cursor is the only >> way to read prior text. >> >> As far as interuptions, you should pipe the contents to a file and >> read it from teh file instead. >> >> What knd of development are you doing? >> >> Regards, >> Alex, >> >> >> On 20-Jul-09, at 8:09 PM, Garry Turkington wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I played with the Mac terminal last year and got some help from >>> people >>> here re its accessibility. I'm now using my Mac a lot more and want >>> to >>> get the most out of the terminal so am requesting wisdom from others >>> out >>> there. >>> >>> From the command line I really need the ability to do development >>> locally >>> and connect to remote machines via ssh. I've found a few issues: >>> >>> 1. Any command that generates multi-line output seems to be >>> truncated by >>> the prompt or new line announcement. Good example is "java - >>> version". I >>> can improve this by setting a much shorter prompt in my shell but >>> it's >>> still very hit and miss. Is there any way to configure things to >>> more >>> reliably read new information? I've tried messing around with >>> cursor and >>> terminal types with no success that I can really point to. >>> >>> 2. Is there any way to review prior text on the screen or is >>> interacting >>> with the scroll area and moving the VO cursor up the way to do that? >>> >>> 3. When connecting to remote machines -- and to a lesser degree >>> locally -- >>> I need access to some ncurses applications but the cursor tracking >>> with VO >>> seems very unpredictable. An example would be to open "lynx - >>> show_cursor" >>> on the remote box and try and say navigate around the CNN homepage. >>> Or >>> use something like pine where cursoring around changes text >>> highlights. >>> >>> Anyone got advice as to how I can make all this work better for me? >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> Garry >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Garry Turkington >>> garry.turking...@gmail.com >>> >>>> >> >> >>> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
