So one of the interesting things about my new job is that I'm learning to use a mac, and some associated stuff like Textmate. Altogether, it has been a welcome change. Textmate is great. The UI is great. The unix stuff underneath is great. It's nice for programming, and I can use proprietary formats, etc. Fantastic. I'll be buying one ASAP.
A while ago, I had a post about Paul Graham's essay about Cambridge being a great place for startups and smart people. (This was before he moved YCombinator out west.) He talks about it being in the air. How we have high quality eavesdropping here. I actually received proof of that my second day here.
I was in the terminal, and I wanted to open an html file with firefox. And I typed "fi (tab)" Nope. No tab completion for firefox... Okay. So then how about "firefox index.html"...? Nope. No good. Then, I typed "open index.html" I haven't touched a mac terminal before 2 days ago, and at the time, I chalked it up to a guess. Then I remembered. I was on the red line a few months ago. Two college kids were talking about the "open" command, and I overheard them. In this case, I consciously absorbed what they said, but I wonder how many things I'm learning in the background....
Well, as I said, this is the last entry on here. My github account isn't going anywhere, and I'll probably link to my new blog on there.
Over and out.
open is a neat little command, made complete with the -e switch. IIRC if you dive into what's going on, you'll see the awful mess of how OS X decides application associations on files. Sort of a combination of old mac, windows, and gypsy curses.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear the job is well. We should get a beer tomorrow night...