Comments on: I Love Archive & Install

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:41:26 +0000

Just came across this post.. Thought I’d point you to the site I use for this incase you haven’t figured it out yet.

http://www.snark.de/index.cgi/0007

Later.

By: Alan Schmitt

Alan Schmitt — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:50:37 +0000

A promising replacement for ucontrol might be fkeys: http://www.kodachi.com/fKeys/

I’ve been using it for a month now, and it works great.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 05:21:50 +0000

If you had Remote login enabled you could have perhaps SSH-ed in from another box and corrected the problem.

This has saved me more than once.

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:53:59 +0000

Brian - I know, but i’m a risk taker! lol

Jason - tried. there was just no keyboard support at all. Oh well.

By: Jason Urquidez

Jason Urquidez — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:50:59 +0000

Plugging in a USB keyboard from a desktop mac might have saved you a little time. Good excuse to talk about A&I though.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 04:53:35 +0000

Of course, if you were editing plist in your account, you could just boot into another account. You really should not be editing system wide plists.

By: richard

richard — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 04:33:17 +0000

Don’t think that you need to go getting into EMACS just for learning keymaps… just use the “sane” ones everywhere else…

CTRL-A - beginning of line
CTRL-E - end of line
CTRL-K - delete (kill?) to end of line
CTRL-U - delete to beginning of line
CTRL-Y - paste kill buffer…

That’s what I use in bash / Terminal anyhow… apparently Firefox ignores these by default.

By: Jason Terhorst

Jason Terhorst — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 03:01:32 +0000

I guess I don’t pay enough attention to my keyboard use, but I never realized that Fn + Del is a forward delete. I’ll have to keep that in mind. I’m currently on a desktop, but will maybe get a MacIntel portable after I graduate.

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:52:49 +0000

cool - thanks Kevin.

Guess I’ll have to start getting into emacs after all.

By: Kevin Broderick

Kevin Broderick — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:26:24 +0000

Note that most Cocoa apps support some emacs bindings by default, and you can add more by dropping a file in ~/Library/KeyBindings. For me, C-d (CONTROL-D) deletes the next character, m-D (meta-D / option-D) deletes the next word, etc. Check out gnufoo.org for the instructions and more cool info on mapping keys under Cocoa.

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:33:08 +0000

On my powerbook, I just don’t use Enter, for Enter. Pre-Tiger, I used uControl to map it as Function, so I could easily hit Function + Delete for FORWARD delete.

oh well. I’ll live.

By: Jason Terhorst

Jason Terhorst — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:07:13 +0000

Good ol’ Archive and Install. I had to use that after installing that retarded Security Update that messed everything up. But why did you want to remap the enter key? Hmm. Maybe I’m just spoiled by the pro keyboard.