Mac

[cellio]

My Mac Mini arrived Friday, faster than I expected. In an act of will I did not punt my congregation's Friday-evening services, attendance at which required starting Shabbat two hours early, to play with it (and go somewhere else later). I did verify that a VNC server is running on my PC and reachable from my laptop, so I can skip the dual-monitor/keyboard/mouse-on-one-desk setup. So now, off to rearrange bunches of hardware and load up a new machine.

If you've got favorite Mac tips & tricks, sites, software, etc, please feel free to share. I've used an iBook (running Tiger) casually, but as a main machine it's new to me.

Comments

Re: Apps

[cellio]

Actually, I want Control on the caps-lock key (for emacs) and already remapped that. I don't think I can map both Control and Command to the same key, and that would probably confuse some apps anyway. (Do any Mac apps other than emacs, which isn't a native Mac app, use control?)

What I'd really like to do is to tell individual applications, or perhaps the OS if my suspicion about control is correct, that wherever they're expecting command, they should accept control. Otherwise it's going to take a long time and a lot of finger cramps to de-hard-wire cut and paste. :-(

Re: Apps

[brokengoose.livejournal.com]

Control is used by non-native apps. You'll end up using for RDC, VNC, terminal apps, etc. Other than that, I've never touched the control key.

I wonder, given how little control is used, if you might have more luck the other way: tell the non-native apps (well, emacs and Terminal) that whenever they expect control, they should accept command.

Re: Apps

[cellio]

An interesting thought. Thanks; will investigate.