![]() By editing, I mean adding, deleting, and changing lines of text, as well as possibly creating a new file from scratch and then copying and pasting some code prior to saving the file. Smultron, TextEdit, or any of the numerous other text editors available. You should be comfortable editing pure text files, either in one of the bundled Unix editors like vi, emacs, or pico, or using something like.Friday’s hints will not be a good place to learn the basics of Unix, mainly because I’d be a horrendously bad teacher for such a subject! However, none of these Friday hints will require much in-depth Unix knowledge (again, because that’d make me the wrong person to be talking about it!). You should feel comfortable typing in other commands, even if you don’t necessarily understand what every word of the command does (I’ll do my best to explain everything if it’s a complex command, however). This includes launching the application, having a decent understanding of some simple Unix commands like cd, ls, cp, and mv. You should be at least familiar with the basics of the Terminal application (in /Applications/Utilities). ![]() Note that all of the following may not be required for any given hint, but they will probably all prove useful at one time or another: If you’d like to try some of the Friday hints (and I promise that none of them will be destructive in nature, even if you do something wrong!), there are some prerequisites. So although the hints here may often involve the Unix side of OS X, that’s not necessarily all you’ll see here each week. Or downloading and installing some open-source program that does something potentially cool and/or useful. Or tweaking the appearance of an application to look more pleasing to your eyes. For instance, we may talk about modifying a Dashboard widget to suit your needs. ![]() Instead, the Friday blog will focus on those things that fall outside the realm of the somewhat stereotypical “check in e-mail, browse the web, write documents, create spreadsheets, design presentations, create graphics, etc.” uses of OS X. That doesn’t, however, mean it’s necessarily going to be a Unix tip. Each Friday, my weblog entry will be something from what I’ll call “the geeky side” of OS X.
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