How to get Mac Vim clipboard copy and paste (Snow Leopard) in the terminal
I’ve been spending more time lately in iterm2 exclusively. The recent split-screen feature is great for me. Running vim in the terminal, I finally accepted this morning how annoying it was that the system clipboard wasn’t integrated.
A quick google and recompile with xterm_clipboard support did the trick.
Here’s the configure command:
./configure --with-features=huge \
--enable-cscope \
--enable-pythoninterp \
--enable-rubyinterp \
--enable-perlinterp \
--enable-gui=macvim \
--with-mac-arch=intel \
--enable-multibyte \
--enable-clipboard=yes \
--enable-xterm_clipboard=yes
If you are like me you prefer a single line for copy and pasting so here’s the same command in a margin defying format:
./configure --with-features=huge --enable-cscope --enable-pythoninterp --enable-rubyinterp --enable-perlinterp --enable-gui=macvim --with-mac-arch=intel --enable-multibyte --enable-clipboard=yes --enable-xterm_clipboard=yes
4 bash (bourne again shell) tips
Some quick keyboard commands I use often on the command line
Repeat last command: !! and Meta(Alt)+. Not sure about the usefulness of this one, but might keep your fingers a little closer to the home row instead of the land of arrow keys.
Begin and end: CTRL+a by itself moves your cursor to the beginning of the line. CTRL+e moves your cursor to the end of the line.
Delete a line of text: Probably my most used keystroke: CTRL+a, CTRL+k = nuke the whole line of text. Don’t hit control twice, just hold it and hit “ak”. You can also do CTRL+u for the same effect, but I find myself using CTRL+ak more because of its home row goodness. The secret here is that CTRL+k deletes from the cursor positon to the end of the line. Well, if you are already at the beginning of the line then you’ve got the whole thing nuked.
Undo: Whoops, you just nuked a line of text that you want back. Try CTRL+_ That’s an underscore, so you’ll need to press the shift key. Another way of writing it is CTRL+SHIFT+-.
All these commands work great in most Mac text input too (dagger-eyes at Adobe Air).
SPSS Statistics on MAC OS X Snow Leopard
If you are running Snow Leopard and are trying to install SPSS 17, follow these instructions. I had to adjust a few steps personally, so YMMV. Specifically the instructions listed a path as /Library/System, and I’m pretty sure they meant /System/Library because the former wasn’t present on the system I was installing SPSS on.
