Tyler Weir » osx

Emacs, OS X and forward-delete.

Tyler — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:09:19 +0000

I recently moved from Vim to Emacs.

Right away I realized that forward-delete wasn’t working (deleting a character on the right of the cursor, rather than back-spacing).

I know little about Emacs, but figured out, with a tip from Ross, how to map the chord of “Function-Backspace” to forward-delete.

Add this to your .emacs file:
(global-set-key [kp-delete] 'delete-char)

Simple but a requirement for coding.

Tyler — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:17:55 +0000

Install MacVim and the command line tool, mvim.

Then in your ~/.gitconfig add this, thusly (replacing the path to mvim with the correct one):

[merge]
tool = mvim
[mergetool “mvim”]
cmd=/Users/tjweir/bin/mvim -d -g $LOCAL $MERGED $REMOTE
keepbackup=false

Then you can “git mergetool” all you’d like.

Tyler — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:34:43 +0000

iPhone SDK Beta 5 – 1 hour to install. 2 gigs to download. Not lightweight, but it was a simple clean install.

Tyler — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:27:04 +0000

Image editors on OS X make for a disappointing experience when trying to make CharacterMaps.
Acorn and Pixelmator are not helpful.

Tyler — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:34:58 +0000

You can find it here: HTTPClient
Todd Ditchendorf also wrote Fluid.app which is an awesome Single-Site Browser application.