1. Using a black background in my xterms.
First of all, the lack of mouse passthrough for vim in Terminal.app means it's a non-starter for me. Here's what my ~/.Xresources file looks like:
XTerm*background: black XTerm*foreground: white XTerm*scrollBar: false XTerm*utf8: 1 xterm*saveLines: 10000 xterm*jumpScroll: true XTerm*scrollBar: false xterm*visualBell: true xterm*loginShell: trueSome of those options are on by default but I included them for posterity.
2. Environment fixes for black terminals and XTerm titles
The defaults really stink for a dark background terminal and the default static title of 'xterm' is not terribly useful. Here are the interesting parts of my .profile and .bashrc.
.profile:
. ~/.bashrc
.bashrc:
#Mac OS colors alias ls="ls -G" export LSCOLORS='DxGxfxfxcxDxDxhbhDecec' # Xterm Titles in mac os # are we an interactive shell? if [ "$PS1" ]; then case $TERM in xterm*) if [ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm ]; then PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm else PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/#$HOME/~}\007"' fi ;; screen) if [ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-screen ]; then PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-screen else PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033_${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/#$HOME/~}\033\\"' fi ;; *) [ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-default ] && PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-default ;; esac fi
I also highly recommend MacVim (http://code.google.com/p/macvim/). I've got the latest snapshot installed and it works incredibly well. Use 'mvim' to open files from xterm.
I've got a few other personalizations that are just personal preference that I'll have to toss on here later.
2 comments:
I'm attempting to keep my .bashrc portable to linux hence the /etc/sysconfig paths in there.
For the record, I'm still full timing in mac os and I don't even use xterm anymore. MacVim (and ITerm2 for a terminal when needed) for the win!
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