P is for Programming

I ran into an issue today while trying to install Postgresql on OSX Lion. I followed the excellent documentation on this site – basically doing: brew install postgresql initdb /usr/local/var/postgres Then starting it with postgres -D /usr/local/var/postgres This all went great and my database was up and running! Only problem was when I tried to [...]

This is something that will drive you crazy unless you turn it off. By default, Terminal will beep when you hit TAB to autocomplete and there is more than one result. In Terminal go to Preferences->Settings->Advanced and uncheck ‘Audible Bell’. By the way, to display all results when doing autocomplete simply hit TAB twice.