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How the hell are you all people using command line in macosx?!

By default midnight commander and some bash hot keys are not working out-of-box in terminal (both default and iTerm [the replacement of default shitty Terminal]:
- No Alt-Enter - filename insert, you need to untrivially change keycodes
- No Shift-F7 (find next)
- No left-right = pgup/pgdown
- No word left/right (which is alt-left/right in linux) - this is bash specific
Other inconveniences:
- No key repeat (yes, no physical laptop keyboard keys repeat at all! Long press is for additional symbols - as on ipad; you need to change kernel parameter for that!)
- No NTFS write support.

- No way to disable smooth scroll in default PReview, it's really BAD on this screen and it's SLOW (there IS bugreport for this, i checked; but no hope to be fixed - mom Apple knows better what you need).

PS Going to setup win7 in spare partition. Possibly will get rid of macos to use whole drive (128gb only) need xcode sdk! No NTFS -> so I couldn't share files between, and I won't ever use unjournaled and insecure FAT. Only paid options are for ntfs: both free projects are unsupported: NTFS-3G and FUSE. Paid are tuxera (25 EUR) and Paragon ($20). I in no way am going to pay for things are currently for sure available in opensource for linux! NO WAY!

Labels: inconveniences, keyboard, macos, ntfs, shit, usability