Comments on: Swap the Last Two Characters Typed with a Keyboard Shortcut

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:17:54 +0000

Damn! Was it the AltaVista ref that gave be away? LOL

However, I am jumping ship, as OS X is not going in a good direction.

By: Theo Vosse

Theo Vosse — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 06:48:14 +0000

I’m glad you’ve heard of AltaVista. You might also be interested to check out some of those newcomers, like geocities.

Anyway, you can’t have vi keybindings in every program in OSX the way you can have (some!) emacs keybindings. And if you’re so clever, you surely know why: it would mean a modal interface, the one we all hate. I certainly don’t want to hit ESC every time I want to go to the start of the line.

So you’re … o wait, you’re trolling. Sorry, now I see.

By: LOL

LOL — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:49:55 +0000

Attention everyone: Bob knows everything. Time to shut down the internet since Bob is a genius!

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:34:22 +0000

Everyone should know this already! Are we going to post an article for every single Emacs key binding? Post them all in one article and be done with it.

I think the problem is that Mac user are for the most part like Kelly Bundy—every time a new fact goes in their brain and old one falls out. Hell iOS is based on the fact that Mac user are to stupid to remember where they put a stylus.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:31:03 +0000

Yes I have it set in bash. I have heard of this thing called AltaVista that let’s you search the interweb for information.

I want it for every program in OS X. I guess I don’t care anymore as OS X is clearly targeting moronic iOS users, and I will be jumping ship soon.

By: John

John — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:09:50 +0000

I thought this was a very useful tip. Why get so bent Bob & Hish? Just gotta let those rocks keep falling out of your head, huh.

By: Theo Vosse

Theo Vosse — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 06:17:56 +0000

It’s optional. You don’t have to use it, and ctrl-t isn’t being used for anything else. Over-short-cutting would be assigning cmd-ctrl-shift-H to Help.

By: Theo Vosse

Theo Vosse — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 06:13:27 +0000

Would you have preferred ESC x left-arrow p?

Anyway, you can set vi-style editing in bash (i.e., the Terminal): $ set -o vi

Just put it in your .bash_profile.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 01:43:35 +0000

Because that would be stupid!

Ctrl+T cuts keystrokes for a common mistake in half. If you don’t use this the solution you must type: del, del, key, key. Very useful in Terminal.app where autocorrect is not supported.

By: hishamaus

hishamaus — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:55:07 +0000

Another great example of over shortcutting even the simplest of things.
Why don’t we yet have (Cmd + control + S) to add a space after a word?

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:01:47 +0000

This is just a standard Emacs command. Most Emacs commands work when entering text in most programs. This goes for OS X, Linux and Windows. And, since I am a Vim user this makes me sad