A colleague of mine just sent me a couple links that were great tips if you work with git often. lifeon.biggerplanet.com talks about how to take advantage of customizing the prompt and using git-completion.bash script to auto-complete things like git branches and also display the branches in the prompt.
Points of interest…
export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" source ~/bin/git-completion.bash PS1='[\u@\h \w$(__git_ps1 " (%s)")]\$ '
I’m always using the Mac OSX Terminal app for things. I was jealous of linux machines though, their terminals were much nicer. Things like the Delete key worked among other things.
I found this to help. (From http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050525040921189) (Originally it was from http://koorb.co.uk/scrapbook/ I guess, but that page errors out for me.)
Add this to ~/.inputrc (or ~/.bash_profile works too I guess) (it has to go in your .inputrc file.
# this makes the "delete" key work rather than # just entering a ~ "\e[3~": delete-char # these allow you to use ctrl+left/right arrow keys # to jump the cursor over words "\e[5C": forward-word "\e[5D": backward-word # these allow you to start typing a command and # use the up/down arrow to auto complete from # commands in your history "\e[B": history-search-forward "\e[A": history-search-backward # this lets you hit tab to auto-complete a file or # directory name ignoring case set completion-ignore-case On # I'm not sure what keys these are! "\e[1~": beginning-of-line "\e[4~": end-of-line "\e[5~": beginning-of-history "\e[6~": end-of-history "\e[2~": quoted-insert
Thats it, open a new Terminal window and you’ll be able to Delete away.
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