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The terminal emulator included in Mac OS X.

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Web page from the terminal

I use Snow Leopard. How I can send a html page to a web browser from Terminal.app? If I am in $HOME dir, with a file myPage.html, can I view this file in a browser right from Terminal.app?
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vim is very slow on my Mac

I use vim on Mac OS X, but this is realy slow in Terminal.app and iTerm. Progress over many lines becomes tedious. some idea of solution?
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How to make Microsoft Keyboard special keys run osascript commands on OS X?

I'm trying to make (1) special key open new terminal window. I bound it to file /Users/taw/bin/new_term, which contains: #!/bin/sh exec osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to do script "cd ."' ...
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How to assign a keyboard shortcut to a specific New Window template in Terminal.app?

I have a template set up in Snow Leopard's Terminal.app to create a new window or tab with my preferred emulation settings for a particular host that I use. I'd like to assign a keyboard shortcut to ...
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How do I ensure that the Mac OS X Terminal asks me for my private-key’s password every time I SSH?

The only time the Mac OS X Terminal seems to ask for my identity file’s password, is when I restart. I’m fairly paranoid, and this seems insecure; how can I ensure it asks for the password every time ...
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Is there a way to hide Terminal.app's credentials (prompt text)?

I lose too many columns in my terminal because of the credentials ( Victor-Rodriguess-MacBook-Pro:~ victorrodrigues$ ). Could I shrink this? The only information I see as really needed sometimes for ...
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Mousing and Page-Up/Down in Terminal for Mac OS X

Compared to *nix, Terminal.app seems pretty lame. How can I get it to: Send Page-Up/Down to an application, instead of just scrolling the terminal output Mouse around in vim. set mouse=a isn't ...
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How do I set the title of Terminal.app with the fish shell?

I'm trying the fish shell in Mac OS X, intalled using MacPorts. I'd like to have the title of my Terminal window be my current directory. Currently, the title just says Terminal - fish - 80x24 ...
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Is it possible to bind ⌘← and ⌘→ on Terminal.app?

I'd like to bind ⌘← and ⌘→ on Terminal.app to going to the start and end of the line respectively so it behaves like any (almost) other program in Mac OS X. Is it possible? I went to Preferences and ...
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Set the title of the terminal window to the current directory

How can I get the Terminal.app in OS X to display the current directory in its window or tab title? I'm using the bash shell.
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Mac OS X - Could not start Terminal.app - shell has illegal value

I can not run the Terminal.app after rolling back my system from time machine. Mac OS X Version 10.6.2 It displays the following error. "Your are not authorized to run this application" "The ...
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Why can't I read or write a file whose owner is root and permission is 707 in Terminal.app on Snow Leopard?

This is what happens - but why? liuxiang@MacBookPro: ~/casecode/sh $ ls -l sa -rwx---rwx 1 root admin 55 10 21 00:07 sa liuxiang@MacBookPro: ~/casecode/sh $ cat sa cat: sa: Permission denied ...
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Display PDF content in terminal (just like using "less" with txt)

I was just wondering if there is a way to display content of a PDF file inside terminal, just like doing less file.txt but with PDF files.
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Mac OS X: Terminal.App -- how to launch new applications and transfer window focus?

When I launch a non-command-line application from Terminal.App, it always seems to go behind whatever Terminal.App window I'm running. I noticed this for OpenGL and X11 based applications and also for ...
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Any way to fix screen's mishandling of line wrap? (Maybe only Terminal.app)

I'm having an issue using screen and Terminal.app. If I get a bash prompt at the bottom of the screen and I keep typing until the line wraps to the next line, I see the next line, but I do not see ...
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Bash on Snow Leopard doesn't obey terminal colours

With the new version of Snow Leopard, OS X upgraded the bash version to GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin10.0). Now, my .bashrc sets the following settings: # Colors export ...
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How do I make OS X set the terminal title back to the original title when coming back from ssh?

Starting on OS X, I ssh into foo (a Linux box). My terminal title changes to foo. I then ssh into bar (another Linux box). My terminal title changes to bar. I log out of bar. My terminal title ...
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How to use UTF-8 in vim on Mac OS X?

I want to edit UTF-8 documents with vim (7.2 installed via MacPorts, big feautre set, iconv support enabled, multi-byte support enabled) on Mac OS X 10.4 within terminal.app. Terminal.app is ...
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