Minor Updates
I spent a little bit of time yesterday updating this and that on sherman and fiddled with Vim on OS X. There's the Carbonized version that's really more akin to 'gvim' on linux, and then there's the command line 'vim' with no graphical component. I'm sure if someone really wanted to make one distribution they could, but I'm not unhappy about having to deal with two versions. They are both based on 6.1, so the differences are all exceptionally minor and don't effect me in the least. However, I needed to get the colors on the Terminal windows right, which was as simple as setting the TERM variable to xterm-color and away we go. It's really quite nice.
I've also spent a little time with the X11 xterm on OS X to get the default colors to be white on black. This meant editing the ~/.Xdefaults file and putting in the lines:
xterm*VT100*foreground: white xterm*VT100*background: black
But the really interesting part was that the file had to be a 'Unix' file for it to be read properly. On Mac OS X you can have DOS files, Unix files and Mac files - all with their different line endings. Well, X11 needs to have the Unix 'newline' endings or else it won't work properly. This is a very nice thing to know, and it would have saved me quite a bit of time to know that. But, in the end, everything worked out and the defaults look great. Once again, the command-line vim works great in the xterm session.
One more little thing I updated was to the latest version of iTerm - a very nice little tabbed terminal emulator. It's come a long way since it's initial releases, and I have to say that it's pretty darn close to being my preferred terminal program because it will make it possible to get more terminals in a smaller space, and there isn't an abundance of space on my iBook's screen. Very nice.
Safari seems to be coming along, and I'm hoping to see a new release in the coming days. Also, the iPods are way past due for an update, and while I'm not going to get one of those until my existing MP3 player craps out, it's still exciting to wonder what the next generation will bring - besides increased storage.