Tag Archives: OSX

OSX Nuisance Folders

By Sam | Published: February 20, 2010
Building on a post by richthomas over on macrumors.com, use the following command to hide folders in OSX: chflags hidden /Users/samh/Public This is _very_ useful for getting rid of the stupid Sites, Public and Movies folders that are there by default in every snow leopard home directory. Use this command to unhide: chflags nohidden /Users/samh/Public
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vim Status Bar under OS X

By Sam | Published: January 11, 2009
I use Ubuntu Linux at work and OS X Leopard at home.  That means I do 70% of my coding on Linux and the rest at home.  I use vim in both places. For some reason, the version of vim that is distributed with OS X does not have a status bar.  This is the [...]
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The Default Behavior of the ‘tab’ Key in OSX

By Sam | Published: January 9, 2009
I spent a year doing a lot of manual QA of a large web app.  In that time I learned some survival strategies for data entry on web pages.  God bless the tab key. Unfortunately the tab key does not work properly under os x and browsers.  You should be able to tab to any [...]
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