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November 02, 2003

Panther

Well, I spent my Sunday and did it, upgrading from Jaguar to Panther. Probably not the brightest move I've ever made, but one I'm sure to repeat many times over. Initial impressions are very good. The new finder is noticably faster on my now aging PowerBook. The return to some of the older style Mac windows is nice, but I really just don't dig the brushed metal look all that much. Still can't stand the column view but at least many of the bugs have been fixed with it.

Now my gripes. The install went horribly, and as such I've lost a bit of data. Not because I didn't backup, but because I didn't backup enough. I can't seem to find it either, but there is a nice little hack to re-enable vim's syntax coloring, which is almost essential for me to work. If anyone has this, I'd love to see it.

Other complaints, the move from tcsh to bash. Now it's not a big one as I'm fairly shell independent, but it's just annoying to have to update your shell scripts again. Ugh.

Mail.app still sucks. It's most annoying feature: not stopping when you click stop. I mis-configured it so the IMAP server just started to download everything in my home directory and put it into an IMAP accessible folder. Stopping this malfunction took a force quit and numerous hacks of the directories it uses. Furthermore it now no longer seems to be updating or seeing some folders that are explicitly stated to being there. Ugh.

I forgot to backup my NetNewsWire blog list too. My fault, but still annoying.

Posted by Dan at November 2, 2003 08:39 PM

Comments

Syntax coloring?
:syntax on
from:
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/ProgEdit/ProgEdit.html#Syntax

I don't use VMI so I don't know if that is what you needed.
iolaire

Posted by: Iolaire McFadden at November 3, 2003 08:49 AM

Figured it out. The syntax coloring option is turned on in the vim editor, but the Terminal.app is not displaying the colors properly.

This was corrected by simply putting the following into my vimrc:

set term=builtin_ansi

I'm guessing that Apple has fixed their termcap, as I remember before needing to do some serious hacking about to enable this.

Posted by: Dan at November 3, 2003 09:27 AM