1. I always used tmux in a big xterm window: `xterm -fa "Andale Mono" -fs 18 -fullscreen -fg white -bg black -e tmux` X doesn't come with Mac OS anymore so you'

1. I always used tmux in a big xterm window: `xterm -fa "Andale Mono" -fs 18 -fullscreen -fg white -bg black -e tmux` X doesn't come with Mac OS anymore so you'd have to download it yourself — http://xquartz.macosforge.org/ http://xquartz.macosforge.org/ Mac OS ships with screen, I think. 2. I prefer MacPorts, but I don't think it matters. 3. tmux does that. 4. I find a lack of copy/paste between vim and the host OS. That's probably because of xterm. • Remember that Mac OS is built on BSD, not Linux. (Apparently it's also fully POSIX-compliant.) • Use cmd-space to search for files and programs quickly. Try not to index any SDK material, though. • Use the touchpad gestures to switch between virtual desktops. This is one of the best features of Mac OS. You can run multiple full-screen windows and still navigate between them. In 10.7: • Four-finger swipe right or left: change windows. Also ctrl-left or ctrl-right. • Four-finger swipe up: change between desktops. Also ctrl-up. • cmd-tab to switch between applications, cmd-` to switch between windows in that application. • cmd-shift-3 takes a screenshot and saves it to your desktop. cmd-shift-4 lets you select a portion of your screen to screenshot. Add a ctrl in there to save to your clipboard instead of the desktop. • Don't use ctrl-alt-cmd-8. • alt-delete to delete the last word. Also alt-fn-delete to delete the next word. • cmd-right and cmd-left move you around in the line. Hold shift to select everything to the right or left. I was surprised by this when switching from Windows. • Typing alt+<letter> lets you produce a lot of special characters easily. You can also add a shift in there for another probably-related character. Some combinations of note: · alt-e to produce an accent on the next letter. · alt-- to produce an n-dash or alt-shift-- to produce an m-dash. · alt-shift-3 and alt-shift-4 to produce those half-&raquo; things: ‹›. · alt-| and alt-shift-| to produce those &raquo; things: « ». · alt-= to produce ≠. · alt-l to produce that negation sign thing: ¬_¬. · alt-v to produce √ which you can pretend is a check-mark. · alt-m to produce mu, so you can type µTorrent pretentiously. · alt-[ to produce typographical quotation marks, alt-shift-[ to close it. alt-] and alt-shift-] produce single quotation marks. • Go to System Preferences › Accessibility and turn on "access for assistive devices". I don't know what that is but a lot of things need it. • Take a look at /Applications/Utilities. In particular, Activity Monitor is the task manager, Disk Utility lets you format things and so on, and Network Utility is a bunch of command-line utilities in a nice-looking package. • Install support for NTFS. "Mac OS X does not support writing to Microsoft Windows formatted NTFS volumes out-of-the box." Sure, you're working in an Apple store but it's probably going to come up eventually and you'll wonder why you can't write to this seemingly fine external drive. http://macinformers.com/how-to-NTFS-3G-support-for-macosx-lion/ http://macinformers.com/how-to-NTFS-3G-support-for-macosx-li...