[Haskell-cafe] Re: Can't uninstall GHC or prepare SOE
installation on OS X
Xavier Elizalde
elizalde at bigpond.net.au
Sat Mar 11 16:26:58 EST 2006
That did the trick, thanks heaps again. I think I may have done a
"Use Settings as Default" after having tweaked the Terminal settings
after launching GHCi. I kept thinking it was some kind of Unix shell
startup script thing.
Xavier
On 12/03/2006, at 5:54 AM, Wolfgang Thaller wrote:
> First, a classic Mac OS trick: If an application misbehaves,
> delete its preferences file (in this case, ~/Library/Preferences/
> com.apple.Terminal.plist).
> Remmeber: uninstalling my GHCi package is never a solution. ;-)
>
> I played around with Apple's Terminal a bit to find out what
> happened, and I've come to the conclusion that I can shift the
> blame to Apple:
> Apparently, the command that is run when a terminal window is
> openened is one of the "settings" that the "Use Settings as
> Default" menu item (and the button in the "Terminal Inspector"
> window) refers to.
> What's more, there seems to be no way to change this setting from
> the user interface. The only way I know of apart from deleting the
> preferences file is to open Script Editor and run the following
> script:
> tell application "Terminal" to do script ""
> .. which opens a new Terminal window without running a command. You
> can then use "Use Settings as Default" to restore everything to
> normal.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wolfgang
>
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