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10 Must know terminal commands and tips for productivity (Mac edition) Before I start I have to mention this is heavily inclined towards Mac OS, since we’re going to be installing iTerm2, some commands apply for Linux as well.

after turning on xterm-mouse-mode, any click on the in the screen returns 'mouse-1 is undefined'. What should I be defining 'mouse-1' as? Is there some reason my mouse clicks are returning this event, and not others its suspecting?

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I put this in my .emacs:

and that seems to do the trick, and now a mouse click in a split changes focus to the split.

Note: I am using iterm2, and I found the info here: http://groups.google.com/group/iterm2-discuss/browse_thread/thread/8e1f2ee7db26c07d/17ac15e69c554998?show_docid=17ac15e69c554998&pli=1

For Emacs in iTerm 2, I've found that the following bit in my ~/.emacs file works very well, providing the ability to insert the character at an arbitrary location, mark a region, and use the scroll wheel:

Mac OS X's Terminal.app does not support mouse reporting. However MouseTerm is a SIMBL plugin that provides it with this feature. http://bitheap.org/mouseterm/

Install MouseTerm and put the following in your Emacs config file:

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I suspect that installing the emacs-goodies-el will provide the appropriate bindings.

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Allow For Mac Text Controls In Iterm2 Themes

use the most and now can't live without is the ability to search the contents of the window with command-f (and command-e, command-g, and command-shift-g) with unlimited scroll-back set. None of my windows and linux-using friends can do this and I hear gasps and ahhs and wows when they see me do it. Also, copy-paste doesn't insert hard returns when the lines wrap. Plus, Teminal.app is very stable. I have dozens of terminals open in multiple spaces (I don't like tabs) and they run for months without crashing. I also use option/center-click to position the cursor and command-t to name windows. Does iTerm do all this?
cmd-f, cmd-g, cmd-shift-g, work.
No clue what cmd-e does anyway, so I can't tell you. ;)
For the scroll back buffer, it's variable, and mine is set at 100,000 lines. Not sure what it's upper limit is.
The click to position I'd never heard of, but it does seem to be missing that. I don't like the mouse really (which is why I'm usually on the command line), so that's not a loss for me.
As for the stability, with years of use, I can't remember the last time it's crashed, and I live in the terminal, since I'm a sysadmin and run mostly linux servers (This true for the iTerm app, not the fork mentioned here, but I'll know more until it either crashes or a few weeks pass.)
Certainly worth trying.