July 2012
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Alternate screen mode and annoying scrolling...
I recently switched to using vim inside of iTerm instead of running MacVim, and I was immediately annoyed by the strange scrolling behavior that happened while I was using vim.
Accidental mouse scrolls into the scrollback buffer would reveal strange lines and pieces of the files I was working on. Clearing the scrollback buffer would help for a short period of time, but iTerm was determined to...
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The Unix Philosophy →
The more I find myself integrating the shell and Unix tools into my workflow, the more drawn I am to the Unix way: “Write programs that do one thing and do it well.”