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Re: Thanks Homebrew maintainers and contributors

#11

Post by Ologn »

daguava wrote: post #5

I'm kind of an outlier when it comes to development, but I really hate using OSX. One thing that makes it bearable for me (I have a mac at work), however, is that I can get exactly what I want with very little hastle using homebrew. I would like to add to this sentiment, on this turkey day, homebrew has my thanks.

It can have strange behavior though.

The other day I went into iTerm2, changed to the top of my Xcode projects top directory and did "find . | xargs grep abcd". Nothing was found. This wasted my time for 30 minutes and then I did a cd to the directory where the Swift files were and did the same command. Immediately I saw the file with the abcd string in it.

This type of thing doesn't happen to me on Ubuntu.

That said, things like iTerm2, Homebrew etc. do make using MacOS somewhat tolerable.

Re: Thanks Homebrew maintainers and contributors

#12

Post by extra88 »

gerosa wrote: post #10

After Docker, I use Homebrew only to install basic tools like git.

Why install git from Homebrew? Git is included in macOS. Sometimes the Apple version of a program is outdated or just different but macOS Sierra has git version 2.13.6, less than six months old.

Re: Thanks Homebrew maintainers and contributors

#13

Post by derefr »

Ologn wrote: post #11
daguava wrote: post #5

I'm kind of an outlier when it comes to development, but I really hate using OSX. One thing that makes it bearable for me (I have a mac at work), however, is that I can get exactly what I want with very little hastle using homebrew. I would like to add to this sentiment, on this turkey day, homebrew has my thanks.

It can have strange behavior though. The other day I went into iTerm2, changed to the top of my Xcode projects top directory and did "find . | xargs grep abcd". Nothing was found. This wasted my time for 30 minutes and then I did a cd to the directory where the Swift files were and did the same command. Immediately I saw the file with the abcd string in it. This type of thing doesn't happen to me on Ubuntu. That said…

Your Xcode project directory probably had spaces in its path somewhere (which, for reasons of rather outdated conventions, is less common to encounter under Linux.)

Like with any other Unix, dealing with spaces in the arguments passing through a pipeline to xargs(1) requires the NUL-delimited style:

    find . -print0 | xargs -0 grep abcd
or you can stop worrying about the spaces by letting find(1) handle them:

    find . -exec grep abcd \{\} \;
or, even better, get grep(1) to do the whole job (which also has the advantage of tagging each found line with the filename the result was found in):

    grep -R abcd .

Re: Thanks Homebrew maintainers and contributors

#14

Post by emmelaich »

Ologn wrote: post #11
daguava wrote: post #5

I'm kind of an outlier when it comes to development, but I really hate using OSX. One thing that makes it bearable for me (I have a mac at work), however, is that I can get exactly what I want with very little hastle using homebrew. I would like to add to this sentiment, on this turkey day, homebrew has my thanks.

It can have strange behavior though. The other day I went into iTerm2, changed to the top of my Xcode projects top directory and did "find . | xargs grep abcd". Nothing was found. This wasted my time for 30 minutes and then I did a cd to the directory where the Swift files were and did the same command. Immediately I saw the file with the abcd string in it. This type of thing doesn't happen to me on Ubuntu. That said…

My iTerm2 disappeared in the upgrade to High Sierra. I don't know why.

I started to use the standard terminal and found it much more responsive that iTerm2. I never used most of the iTerm2 features anyway.

I'm sticking to the standard terminal for the time being.

Re: Thanks Homebrew maintainers and contributors

#15

Post by daguava »

fastball wrote: post #9
daguava wrote: post #5

I'm kind of an outlier when it comes to development, but I really hate using OSX. One thing that makes it bearable for me (I have a mac at work), however, is that I can get exactly what I want with very little hastle using homebrew. I would like to add to this sentiment, on this turkey day, homebrew has my thanks.

What exactly makes you hate MacOS?

Usability feels like a second hand citizen to me, when it comes to things like window management / snapping. I come from a very windows-heavy background, so I appreciate the shell experience provided by OSX, but really hate the ear-flicks of trying to use multiple apps simultaneously, and snapping between them, positioning them, etc, in an OSX world.

To be fair, this could be a training / learn-ability issue that may not be present had I learned OSX first.

Re: Thanks Homebrew maintainers and contributors

#16

Post by platinumrad »

daguava wrote: post #5

I'm kind of an outlier when it comes to development, but I really hate using OSX. One thing that makes it bearable for me (I have a mac at work), however, is that I can get exactly what I want with very little hastle using homebrew. I would like to add to this sentiment, on this turkey day, homebrew has my thanks.

Seconding homebrew being the one of the few things that makes using OS X bearable. Pqrs also gets my turkey day thanks for making Karabiner, which is another one of those things.

Re: Thanks Homebrew maintainers and contributors

#17

Post by daveFNbuck »

extra88 wrote: post #12
gerosa wrote: post #10

After Docker, I use Homebrew only to install basic tools like git.

Why install git from Homebrew? Git is included in macOS. Sometimes the Apple version of a program is outdated or just different but macOS Sierra has git version 2.13.6, less than six months old.

Installing it from homebrew requires minimal effort and can keep you more up-to-date than the system version. It requires more effort to figure out that the included version is "only" half a year old than to just install a newer version from homebrew.

Re: Thanks Homebrew maintainers and contributors

#18

Post by pingiun »

daguava wrote: post #15
fastball wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What exactly makes you hate MacOS?

Usability feels like a second hand citizen to me, when it comes to things like window management / snapping. I come from a very windows-heavy background, so I appreciate the shell experience provided by OSX, but really hate the ear-flicks of trying to use multiple apps simultaneously, and snapping between them, positioning them, etc, in an OSX world. To be fair, this could be a training / learn-ability issue that may…

This really is the easiest thing to fix in macOS, just install magnet (in the app store). I does window snapping in all the places, with shortcuts too.

Re: Thanks Homebrew maintainers and contributors

#20

Post by fastball »

pingiun wrote: post #18
daguava wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Usability feels like a second hand citizen to me, when it comes to things like window management / snapping. I come from a very windows-heavy background, so I appreciate the shell experience provided by OSX, but really hate the ear-flicks of trying to use multiple apps simultaneously, and snapping between them, positioning them, etc, in an OSX world. To be fair, this could be a training / learn-ability issue that may…

This really is the easiest thing to fix in macOS, just install magnet (in the app store). I does window snapping in all the places, with shortcuts too.

I've also had good luck with Moom.
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