Monthly Archives: March 2006

This is just a pet peeve I have with Mac OS X’s Terminal.app. PageUp, PageDown, Home, and End control the line buffer saved in Terminal.app, but doesn’t control those features in whatever program you’re using.

For example, if you’re using vim, emacs, or you’re ssh’ed into another computer and using a command-line irc client (in my case, irssi), you may want the “page up” command to be sent to that program. Holding down Shift *should* make this work, but on my MacBook Pro it doesn’t (maybe because I also have to hold down fn?).

Anyhow, open up a terminal, go to the Terminal menu, and select “Window Settings”. Select “Keyboard”, and now you can see all of the actions for various key commands.

We’re trying to set the following keys to do these actions:

• PageUp = “\033[6~”
• PageDown = “\033[5~”
• Home = “\033[1~”
• End = “\033[4~”

Unfortunately, it’s not that easy. If you go find the PageUp key and click on “Edit”, you may notice that when you try to type a backslash (\) it enters a double backslash (\\). Also can’t use your delete key to edit the string.Do the following:

• Find the key “F20″ and click on “Edit”
• Highlight the String (\033[34~) and hit command+c to copy it.
• Close the window -Find “PageUp” and click on “Edit”
• Make sure the “key” is PageUp, the “Modifier” is none and the “Action” is send string to shell:
• Hit command+v to paste the string from F20 into the box.
• Use the “delete” button in the window (NOT on your keyboard) to delete the last 3 characters. (3, 4, and ~)
• Enter in “6~” (you will have \033[6~ when you are done)
• Hit “ok” and the window will close
• Click “Use Settings as Defaults” to keep your changes.
• Repeat process for PageDown, Home, and End (the string will be different, see above listing).

Again, don’t forget to save your settings as deafaults otherwise new terminals won’t have the same settings.

Enjoy your (now working) Terminal.app.

If you need to scroll up or down in Terminal.app ‘s buffer, use the slider or arrows on the right, or you can hit command+up arrow or command+down arrow on your keyboard.

This works on Mac OS X 10.4.5 with Terminal.app version 1.5 (133)

Well, school has kept me really busy recently, and if that weren’t enough, I’ve got a bunch of hardware projects going on around the house.  Some of them are fun.

First off, my new roomate moved in, and he’s got a nice big screen TV and Tivo.  We’ve been playing around with Tivo Desktop, transfering files and such on and off of the Tivo, allowing it to access our mp3′s and movies, and all sorts of other fun stuff.  I’ve also convinced him to add a second drive, which will be done as soon as we get the mounting bracket’s he ordered.  That may end up being a full post in the future.

My Macbook Pro also arrives today.  Well, technically it already arrived, but I was in the shower so I didn’t hear the doorbell.  To make things worse, I got to watch the FedEx truck drive away from the little window in my shower.  So sad.  Anyway, I’ll be picking it up tonight and play with MacOS X a bit before I try to repartition the drive and install Gentoo.

This frees up my Dell, which is headed over to my dad’s.  Since he lives 2 houses down the street, this will revive the 802.11 antenna project (the pictures are more interesting), which died when (or slightly before) my brother moved up to Sacramento.  When I went up to investigate why it had stopped working, I found the entire Linksys WAP 11 was completely corroded internally, I guess my home-made seals didn’t work out too well.

Regardless, I was rather impressed with how long the little guy held up (it was clear that he had been rusting for a very very long time), so I ordered 2 more of those guys on ebay.  This time I’m trying to get access to the whole house, not just the closest room, so I’m going to be using (at least) one of the 4 ultra-high-gain antenna’s which Dan over at oiccam gave me (thanks Dan!).

I’ll post more on the wifi thing as soon as I get my AP’s and figure out what I’m doing…