Coding

Today,IOS 7 dropped to the general public. As usually comes with the release, there was an Xcode update. I updated.  For some time, I’ve been using the git bundled in Xcode as it makes it simpler to get updates as they come with Xcode. Today, that yielded an amusing message. I use git via an alias in my .bashrc A simple version check reveals all:  git –version Oops… git is apparently subject to Apple’s licenses.

A long time ago I used ksh with vi key bindings, and life was good. Then I moved on to bash, but for some reason, I never investigated using vi key bindings. I simply lived with the defaults (which, for the record, are emacs-like key bindings). So, just the other day I said to myself, “Self, I want to use vi key bindings in bash. I want to again experience the joy of traversing and editing my command line in COMMAND MODE.