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my OsX bash .profile

Just to remember. I add some locale settings to avoid ????? instead of letters in console Unicode programms (such as MC)

# MacPorts Installer addition on 2013-01-22_at_14:43:51: adding an appropriate PATH variable for use with MacPorts.
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
# Finished adapting your PATH environment variable for use with MacPorts.

HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:ignorespace

# for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash
HISTSIZE=2500
HISTFILESIZE=5000

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_MESSAGES=POSIX
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

export editor=/usr/bin/vim

export PS1='\[\e]0;\u@\h: \w\a\]\[\033[01;31m\]\u\[\033[01;33m\]@\[\033[01;36m\]\h \[\033[01;33m\]\w \[\033[01;35m\]\$ \[\033[00m\]'

export force_color_prompt=yes
export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%h/%d - %H:%M:%S "

    #color ls
    alias ls='ls -G'
    alias grep='grep --color=auto'
    alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
    alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
 
    alias ll='ls -alF'
    alias la='ls -A'
    alias l='ls -CF'

OS X how to press ins (Insert key) mc.

I use mc as file manager, and suffer from Ins. key absence at MAC keyboard.
+t solves it. Thanks google! Thanks gods! Work becomes more productive!

OS X How to press ALT (for alt-s at mc, etc)

alt+s is quich navigation search in MC (Midnight commander) to activate alt press.

control + (alt option)

OS X Make F1-F12 work as functional keys (without Fn)

System Preferences -> Hardware -> Keyboard -> “Use the F1-F12 keys to control software features”