This email is written while I'm in a whiny mood <grin> Fair warning!
What I want to know is how people are surviving the truely crappy terminal support in VO. Crappy, in this case, comes from comparing it to TTY based speech programs for UNIX such as yasr. <whining begins here, all feedback warmly welcomed> When I run commands in the terminal, VO doesn't speak what's written to standard out. I realize I can capture all to a file, but I really shouldn't need to do that. VO also doesn't have a good way of telling me which row/column I'm on and won't read line by line when I arrow up and down. I'm seriously thinking of taking a shot at porting yasr from freebsd to Mac. Anyone else think this is a good idea? Thanks for putting up with my rant. You guys are all awesome, Jim On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 12:23:02AM +0000, Esther wrote: > Hello William, > > The most complete answer to your question is to point you to "Take Control of > the Mac Command Line in Terminal" by Joe Kissell, which explains how to > create .bashrc files, what you can specify in that file, how to create > aliases, and many more details for questions that you will probably end up > posting one by one. It's available from the Take Control Books site for > $10.00: > http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/command-line > Some of the Take Control books are available in the iBooks store, but manu, > including this one, are not. Also, if you buy directly from the Take > Control web site you get access to multiple format versions (in addition to > the direct download in PDF) from login on the web site. This includes a > folder of alternate formats (including ePub) from your account (e.g., list of > links will be "Take Control of the Mac Command Line in Terminal", which links > to the web page URL with description given above, then a link to the version > number, which links the latest PDF version, then the "Dowload" link which > links a folder with alternate available formats (e.g., ePub, mobi, Android > format in some cases). Your library comes up when you log into your account, > and you always have access to the latest minor revision versions of each > book. These read easily in Preview, and you can load the ePub version into > iBooks. (Unfortunately, you cannot upload ePub versions of the books > directly into iBooks, the way I can if I purchase these same titles from > oreilly.com, and access my account's purchased ebook links from the login > page). > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Feb 07, 2011, at 01:37 PM, William Windels <william.wind...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello all, I have a question about the terminal: > > In the classic linux distributions that run with bash, there is a > .bashrc-file where you can add aliases. > A alias gives the possibility to make a short string=command for a long > instruction. > a example can be: > alias commandtest='this are all the commands that are executed when > commandtest is typed' > > I would like to make aliases in terminal for some commands but I can't find > the .bashrc-file. > > Can someone give me some hints how this works on a mac? > > Thanx for your help! > > best regards, > William > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
