Mac OS X

"tmux" is a terminal multiplexer. It is basically a replacement for the venerable "screen". Building it would have been pretty straight-forward on my Linux boxes, if I did not want to install it without system administrator privileges. On OS X Lion, I ran into some additional difficulties. So I though I would document the steps to building this to save anyone else the trouble of figuring it out.

1. You need to download and install Fortran from here.

2. When running "./configure" in the R build directory, you need to explicitly set the architecture flags:

For a week now, opening a new tab or window in OS X's Terminal application has been major palaver, sometimes taking up to a minute. CPU usage would shoot up (mostly/usually by WindowServer, but sometimes by kernel_task). It was driving me nuts. I practically live in the Terminal (or the be more accurate, Terminal + Vim), and usually spawn a new Terminal window several times in an hour for everything from using R as a calculator to opening files for viewing to actual development work.

1. Download and install MacFUSE.
2. Download the sshfs binary, renaming/moving to, for example, "/usr/local/bin/sshfs".
3. Create a wrapper tunneling script and save it to somewhere on your system path (e.g., "/usr/local/bin/ssh-tunnel-gateway.sh"), making sure to set the executable bit ("chmod a+x"):

   #!

htop is an interactive process viewer, like top, but greatly enhanced in many respects. The main code base relies on the virtual directory '/proc', which does not exist in OS X. However, thanks to the generosity and smarts of Andy Armstrong, an OS X port is available, and can be cloned by:

This OS X Dashboard Widget displays a "cheat sheet" style summary of selection of Emacs commands:

You can download it from here:

This OS X Dashboard Widget displays a "cheat sheet" style summary of selection of Git commands that are commonly used in most development workflows:

You can download it from here:

I find this very useful: