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November 21, 2008, 3:17 pm
One of my least-favorite error messages is the one that says a volume can’t be ejected because it is in use. The vague advice to “try quitting applications” often leads me on a wild goose chase — somehow it always seems to be the last application I try that has a document on the volume open.
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November 21, 2008, 11:01 am
The fish shell is a modern command-line shell that aims to be more discoverable and less beholden to tradition than other shells like bash and csh. Among its many unique features are on-the-fly syntax highlighting of the command line, as well as tab completion for everything under the sun with descriptions for each possible completion. Unfortunately, this shell does not ship with Mac OS X, so you’ll need to do some work to install it.
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