I have a hard time getting the terminal settings right on OSX so that I can type umlauts (äöü) and see a difference between backspace and C-h (^H) both on my local system and on another host I connect to via ssh. One of them seems to be amiss every time. Argh!
The current situation after some restarting of terminals and all that is that the only thing that does not work is umlauts in the shell in the terminal of OSX. When I start Emacs in that shell, however, umlauts work. Once I ssh to another host, umlauts work in both the (remote) shell and Emacs. Weird. It gets better: When I switch from bash to zsh, it works again. 😄 This is documented in the OSX documentation, so I wonder what it means.
I *think* it means that even Macs have rough edges when hackers start using them.
I’ve also noticed (but not recorded) instances where keybindings were not 100% consistent, eg. the backspace key would not delete items, or the overloading of the arrow keys with the option key, the alt key, the shift key, and the fn key is totally not intuitive... Oh well. 😄
I keep switching between zsh and bash every two years, it seems.
I’ve basically switched all of my mail stuff from Emacs to the Apple Mail tool. It looks a lot like Thunderbird, and I was planning to switch to Thunderbird a while back. I did the switch at work and liked what I saw. The only thing I might end up missing is my BBDB. We’ll see about that.
And we’ll see what I’m going to do with Claudia...
What I really hate about Safari is that there seems to be *no undo* in textareas! This is terrible for wikiheadz like me...
I feel the urge to buy an iSight camera for video conferencing... I doubt skype is supported, however.
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You will find Skype for OS X here: http://www.skype.com/products/skype/macosx/
http://www.skype.com/products/skype/macosx/
But I don’t know if cameras are supported as I am using skype only for voice calls.
– Jean Pierre 2005-02-14 16:48 UTC
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Oh, I just saw that you already know Skype for OS X – shame on me 😄
– Jean Pierre 2005-02-14 16:49 UTC
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I think iSight works well with iChat – you only need Skype if you want to call people on a real phone, I guess.
– Alex Schroeder 2005-02-14 18:16 UTC