Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Modern shells support command-line editing for efficient recall and correction of commands. Command-line editing is more efficient than using the shell's history mechanism. Shells like KornShell, Bash ...

CentOS is a free version of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system. It is built from the same source code as Red Hat and is designed to be used in a business environment. Unlike Red Hat, it ...

At the Microsoft Build conference this year, the company announced it will include a command-line text editor with Windows! This was followed up in a Windows blog post. We are introducing a ...

While you can manually enter the commands to edit files in Terminal editors, in OS X you can set up a service to open files in a desired terminal editor from the Finder's contextual menu. Topher ...

Of all the news (and all the AI) coming out of Build this week, this one was easy to miss. Microsoft has built a new text editor for Windows 11. But this one is for the command line. Called Edit, it's ...

Property lists are essentially XML files with a .plist extension. Here's how to edit them using the command line in the macOS Terminal app. XML is an open data format which gained popularity in the ...

Microsoft's open source editor Edit for the command prompt has been updated to version 1.2.0. The developers have made improvements. On the weekend, Microsoft's programmers released a new version of ...

The Enhanced Editor includes many of the features from the Program Editor in addition to the following: SAS program elements are color-coded, including procedures, keywords, informats and formats, ...