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Old 11-12-2009
Terminal.app keeps creating copies of my settings files
Under Leopard, I like to conveniently open Terminal windows onto remote systems. I've created several settings files in Terminal, one for each remote system that I want to access. To open window, I right-click on the Terminal icon in the Dock, expand the "New Window" menu item, and select the remote system I want to connect to. This has worked very well for me for years.

Today I tried to improve the process. I created a shell script for each remote system. Each script contains a single line like

open /Library/Application Support/Terminal/system-abc.terminal

I created the system-abc.terminal files by doing Terminal->Shell->Export Settings... When I execute the shell script, a new Terminal window pops up as expected. This is great - now I can execute the shell script from Quicksilver, so I have a way to open Terminals with a few keystrokes.

This works quite well, but it has an unfortunate side effect. Whenever I execute the shell script, a new menu item gets added to Terminal's list of remote systems. In other words, after executing the above script once and then right-click on the Terminal icon in the dock, and expand "New Window", I find a brand-new thing in the list. The new thing is called "system-abc 1". If I run the script again, I find another new thing named "system-abc 2". Etc.

So it works, but it clutters up the list of remote systems. Is this a bug in Terminal?
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CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::CustomSource(3pm)	 Perl Programmers Reference Guide     CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::CustomSource(3pm)

NAME

       CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::CustomSource - add custom sources to CPANPLUS

SYNOPSIS

	   ### elaborate help text
	   CPAN Terminal> /? cs

	   ### add a new custom source
	   CPAN Terminal> /cs --add file:///path/to/releases

	   ### list all your custom sources by
	   CPAN Terminal> /cs --list

	   ### display the contents of a custom source by URI or ID
	   CPAN Terminal> /cs --contents file:///path/to/releases
	   CPAN Terminal> /cs --contents 1

	   ### Update a custom source by URI or ID
	   CPAN Terminal> /cs --update file:///path/to/releases
	   CPAN Terminal> /cs --update 1

	   ### Remove a custom source by URI or ID
	   CPAN Terminal> /cs --remove file:///path/to/releases
	   CPAN Terminal> /cs --remove 1

	   ### Write an index file for a custom source, to share
	   ### with 3rd parties or remote users
	   CPAN Terminal> /cs --write file:///path/to/releases

	   ### Make sure to save your sources when adding/removing
	   ### sources, so your changes are reflected in the cache:
	   CPAN Terminal> x

DESCRIPTION

       This is a "CPANPLUS::Shell::Default" plugin that can add custom sources to your CPANPLUS installation. This is a wrapper around the "custom
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       This allows you to extend your index of available modules beyond what's available on "CPAN" with your own local distributions, or ones
       offered by third parties.

perl v5.16.2							    2012-10-11		      CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::CustomSource(3pm)