Fixing Mac OS X terminal keys

Not having a properly working Terminal window was a serious drawback to productivity when switching to Mac OS X. Being someone that has worked for many years using *nix systems I could not resist that Page up, Page down, home and end were not working in the standard way. So, after doing some googing, I find out how to bring the default unix behaviour back:

Open the Terminal preferences (cmd+,) and in the keyboard tab make sure to associate the keys like this:

Key                       Escape Sequence
Left  (modifier: option)  \033b
Right (modifier: option)  \033f
Home                      \033[1~
End                       \033[4~
Page Up                   \033[5~
Page Down                 \033[6~

Update (2011-12-24): I found that using iTerm 2 is a match better option than using the default Terminal App.

Power of Meaning

“While we count the lines of code we use (which are expressed in languages with careful syntax we define), the battles here are fought, won or lost on how much power of meaning lies under the syntactic forms.”

– Alan Kay

Why blogger why?

I keep clicking on the "3/28/11" but nothing happens. Is it so hard to give me a calendar? I mean, the rest of the websites are so eager to show me one: In some cases they even make me scroll my 23 years to specify my birthday and, here, nothing?