Feb

27

Creating a Mac OS X Finder Droplet for iTerm

February 27, 2011 | 2 Comments

Recently, I stumbled on the Textmate droplet by Henrik Nyh allowing me to quickly open a file or a folder in Textmate by dragging it to the Finder toolbar. Since I had just setup iTerm2 and learned to script it with AppleScript, I figured I’d put the two together and create my own iTerm2 droplet. [...]

Jan

29

iTerm2: advanced features

January 29, 2011 | 5 Comments

At bluekiwi, I constantly have no less than 10 opened terminal sessions at the same time. Because it is so easy to launch a command in the wrong window (on the wrong server), I got used to always order my tabs the same way and always give them the same name. As I needed more [...]

Jan

2

Debian Etch: setting up the basics

January 2, 2011 | 3 Comments

There are a few things I always do when setting up a new system running Debian: I install the bash-completion, I set up my terminal colors, enable coloration in vi/vim and other little improvements. In order to make my next setup much easier and save some time, I gather the necessary steps in this post. [...]