Leopard Peeps - Tweaking your Terminal
Written by Jacob Thomason   
Monday, 16 June 2008
picture_1.pngIf you are anything like me, you live in Terminal.  Over the years Mac OS X has become a very beautiful OS and looks nice.  With the release of Leopard, Apple finally gave Terminal the much needed upgrade.  You can now have multiple tabs, window groups, and even theme your window.  Thats all well and good, but Apple left off some pretty important parts, like color coded text for highlighting different things in code and your directory structure.  Also, the stock themes that Apple offers are kinda lacking.

So, during my quest to improve some of these pitfalls, I came across Todd Werth's blog on Infinate Red.  Todd details how you can add color coding and a new theme he created thats quite nice, simple and black.  So, if you live in Terminal as much as I, this is def worth a look.

Todd's install instructions

O yea, on a similar note.  Every wondered what "sudo rm -rf /" would do to your mac?  Watch!
 



Comments (3)
17-06-2008 15:44
 
"use screen" ??
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17-06-2008 12:14
 
Instead of using tabs do it the real way, use screen.
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17-06-2008 00:20
 
Hey, we also did a quick video tutorial on messing with he terminal settings. I love customizing stuff... :) 
 
http://www.macgasm.net/2008/03/18/screencast-tuesday-customize-your-terminal/
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