I got both of these from Lifehacker so they must be good. No crap in there.

The first applies only to the Terminal in OS X. Nevertheless, I had indeed found that my terminal was starting to take some time not just to appear after clicking on the dock icon, but for the command prompt to show up. And this was even after running Onyx. Then I came across this post which suggested eliminating the *.asl files which are apparently logs. As I wasn’t even aware of their existence I really didn’t think I’d miss them so I ran the following command

sudo rm -f /private/var/log/asl/*.asl

and, sure enough, the terminal and command prompt opened almost instantaneously for me. Not sure, however, how often this needs to be done but looks like a useful tip.

The second tip seems like something that could be very useful if you’re used to busily writing long commands and may not notice a typo until you’re just about to hit enter. Well, you don’t have to move the cursor all the way back. Instead you can use the carat symbol (^) to correct the error. Read this post for details. This works in all platforms (that I’m aware of although I haven’t yet tried it in Haiku).

 

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