what about me?

Out of the box, the pageup and pagedown keys don’t do what I want when I’m running emacs in the OS X Terminall app. They page up and down through the Terminal buffer, rather than the emacs buffer.

Bother you, too? Here’s how to fix it, with thanks to Mac OSX Hints:

$ tcsh
% set echo_style=both
% echo -n "\e[5~ | pbcopy
% exit


In Terminal Inspector (Terminal/Window Settings/Keyboard),

• highlight page down;
• press Edit button;
• select “send string to shell:” from Action list;
• tab into input field;
• paste (apple-v);
• press OK;
• highlight shift page down;
• press Edit button;
• select “scroll to next page in buffer” from Action list;
• press OK;
• highlight shift page up;
• press Edit button;
• select “scroll to previous page in buffer” from Action list;
• press OK;
• press “Use Settings as Defaults” button.

I’ve recognized some anti-SOA memes lately. The worm is turning.

Last month, in a meeting to discuss the design of a failing project, managers who had previously touted SOA as good for everything said things like, “SOA is great, but we don’t need all the power; our transactions are so simple, we don’t need SOA.”

So maybe this is the rap that will hang from the SOA dog’s neck. It’s too powerful. Beautiful — can’t blame anybody for using technology that turned out to be too powerful.

Why does working in a place where managers never make mistakes frustrate me so?