Posts tagged macosx

A friend of mine was in need of a script to automatically generate the OTA Manifests needed to distribute iOS apps internally through the iOS Developer Enterprise License. 

So I wrote a little Ruby script that uses the plist gem for creating a Ruby Array from the plists information. One limitation I found in the plist gem is that it can’t parse binary plists. Right now I’m working on implementing that in Ruby and see if I can get it added to the gem but, for now, I just added to the package this perl script I found, indicated by this page.

If your plist is a binary one, just convert the plist to XML using the plutil.pl script and then using plist2ota.rb to generate your OTA Manifest. 

The link is here: https://github.com/dallarosa/plist2ota

Requests, issues and sugestions, please use Github’s issues page :)

One of the best plugins I’ve found for vim is CommandT.  It lets you open files in a very speedy and intuitive way, making it very simple to search files and open them in tabs, splits or vertical splits. Or so it should be. On OS X, opening a file on a new split doesn’t really work. You should be able to do it using the Ctrl-S shorcut but it just doesn’t work.

Today I decided to go after this problem. Looking around the net, I found an article explaining the reason:

 I found a related tip indicating that by default, Terminal.app reserves Ctrl-S for old-fashioned XON/XOFF flow control.

Ok, so the Terminal app doesn’t allow us to use Ctrl-S because it’s a reserved shortcut. What to do?

Simple, just add the lines below in your ~/.bashrc

stty -ixon -ixoff

It will disable the above behavior and free Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q for use in terminal apps!

Reminder: Just adding that to your bashrc won’t change the settings in the currently open terminal windows. Type the command above on the terminal so you can have the benefits right now, or reopen all your sessions.

Recently I gave up on screen for tmux. From the tmux homepage:

tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals (or windows), each running a separate program, to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached.

Tmux is screen on steroids. You can customize just everything, from starting applications automatically to the background color to the key bindings. The multi-pane temrinal thing is pretty cool but sometimes you just wanna focus and work in just one fullscreen pane while keeping the ability to switch back to the multi-pane mode.

Originally there are no bindings for (or a simple command) to maximize and restore the size of a pane.

After some googling, I found a perfect solution for the problem and I decided to share it with everyone:

unbind + 

bind + new-window -d -n tmux-zoom 'clear && echo TMUX ZOOM && read' \; swap-pane -s tmux-zoom.0 \; select-window -t tmux-zoom 

unbind - 

bind - last-window \; swap-pane -s tmux-zoom.0 \; kill-window -t tmux-zoom

These will bind the “+” and “-” for maximizing and restoring, respectively. 

My own tmux.conf can be found on github.

(Source: superuser.com)