Every time someone asks me for help for something geek on a Mac, I often prefer using the Terminal, because I never got used to editing a configuration file under /etc with a graphical text editor. Don't misunderstand me, I am not a Terminal addict, and I often prefer using graphical tools extremely integrated with Mac OS X: for example, I wouldn't code in C++ with something else than Xcode, which turns out to be an incredible IDE. But for some other things, I still launch this Terminal, and there are a few things in its default configuration I never liked, such as the behaviour of the keys page up/page down, home/end, etc.

So, let me tell you how you can configure your Terminal like I did on my mac, running Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6.

Having to work with Tomcat for an important project I am working on, I installed it on my Mac. However, in the beginning, I didn't make much effort: I just uncompressed the official archive in my /usr/local, and I was able to start and stop Tomcat manually, that's all... But today I decided to learn a few things about Mac OS X, trying to install it properly. Let's see what I did!