Lifecycle of the North American Jaguar.
August 28th, 2002
Lifecycle of the North American Jaguar. Some tidbits I’ve
discovered already:
- The vim 6.0 executables I had didn’t work. Get vim 6.1 binaries for OSX,
including gvim support. (Go ahead and ln -s
/Applications/vim/Vim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim
/usr/local/bin/vim for
shell usage, too.) - My Terminal seems to be really confused about multibyte fonts.
Using my preferred setup (ProFont, 9pt.) any instance of l/
(that’s ‘ell’, ‘slash’) will turn into a blank (or a doubly-wide blank
if you have your settings slightly different). There’s also Monaco (did
anyone else notice the “Monaco CY” font, which seems to be a “Monaco
circa 1984”?) but it’s got weird spacing issues (and sometimes has
problems with imagined multibyte situations as well). Lots of
tweaking to find a font that will work.
Of course, the visual style has REALLY been cleaned up. The old style, which
was indeed extremely lickable, has metamorphosed into a cleaner,
crisper style that’s eminently more clickable. Let’s take a
look, shall we?
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| MacOS X 10.0-10.1 | MacOS X 10.2 “Jaguar” |
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