OS X: Day 1

[nornagon]

OS X is really very pretty. Apple's stuff has a cohesion that GNOME and KDE generally lack, each possibly due to the existence of the other.

After fixing up the Terminal.app options (the 10.5.6 settings dialog makes rather more sense than previous versions), I set up Spaces. As an avid xmonad user, I'm trying to make OS X behave in a vaguely

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[anonymous]

Welcome to the dark side :)

A lot of those terminal idiosyncrasies are unique to terminal.app. For this reason I'm using iTerm, which whilst a little bit slower, works better with some of the older Linux systems I SSH to (terminal type problems) and has proper support for the home and end keys.

Also, per your list of stuff:

- Not sure what the story is with your VIM blinking highlighted text. I'm using VIM 7.2.22 and haven't seen that before.

- MacVIM is a pretty good port of gVIM to OSX - http://code.google.com/p/macvim/ - and is regularly updated.

- Unless you really, really, really need every last ounce of disk performance, I wouldn't install Debian to a separate partition. Just use the VMware file format. It's much nicer, nearly as fast, and you don't end up with the "5GB free here, none there" problem. (Fusion is awesome, incidentally)

Lastly, check out André Pang's OSX Useful Software Page. It's really helpful. http://www.algorithm.com.au/code/macosx/software/

Cheers,

Matt Moor

[nornagon]

The rationale behind installing Debian in its own partition is that I can boot into Debian alone when I need to. I haven't installed it yet, though, so I might end up scrapping that partition and growing my main one.

I dropped my .vimrc from Debian straight into OS X, I suspect I have something in there which is causing the blinking.

Thanks for the advice :)

Jeremy