I’m a heavy macports user. I’ve installed tons of ports and for a while now, I was under the impression that macports matured enough to stop worrying about potential dependency nightmares. Basically macports already felt like the FreeBSD ports collection. Sure, there are b0rken portfiles now and then but thats ok. As I said – […]
Pops up a dialog asking for a search query, then runs grep on the selected dir in the project drawer and shows the results in a HTML output window with the search query highlighted. Just have a project with 8000 files in it and TextMates » Find in Project « command is just too slow […]
This is a neat little command line to open man pages in Preview.app: man -t bash | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app In fact its converting it to a PDF file. I just tried it and its a lot better to read and search than in the Terminal.app. Found on bitfever.de
If you ever wanted to know what ports are actually available through MacPorts check out their trac site at http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/browser/trunk/dports That’s it for now.
I know what you are thinking: »Those poor OS X users with their mutilated unix user land. I wrote about the ancient version of locate that OS X ships with, now this also applies to the standard shell, bash. OS X ships with version GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release, which just like locate has poor or […]