The first thing I do when setting up a new Mac is make the Caps Lock key into another Control key.
System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys
Saves lots of awkward pinky-bending.
Quick tip for developers who use OS X
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Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X
#122Is there a way to do something similar in Linux? I use gnome-terminal but would think about switching to something with a feature this useful.
Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
... so do they prefer a track ball or TrackPoint (or some sort of Minority Report gestures-based system)? /s
No, they just use the keyboard. And use a mouse emulator (move pointer with the keyboard) on those instances where there's no kb shortcuts.
Is that before or after they move on to using a needle and a steady hand?
Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X
#124Another really useful command is the open $ open filename.png $ open . $ open -e filename.txt $ open -a Pixen filename.png The first command will open the file with the default application. Open . will open the current directory in finder, which I find very helpful. The -e flag will open the file in textedit. The -a will open the file in the given application name.
Under Linux there is a similar command: xdg-open
or gnome-open.
On Windows the equivalent is start (e.g. start C:\ )
Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X
#125A new one for me I accidentally found the other day.. If you use Spotlight to find something and then want to see the file in Finder, Cmd+click the item in the Spotlight dropdown. Edited from Cmd+shift+click due to note in child comment :-)
You can also use Cmd + Return.
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#126Whoa, it would seem that you can option click above the line and go back in history!
Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X
#127sips -Z 1280 file.jpg to resize a photo easily...
Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X
#128Two more tips: * Ctrl-a to go to beginning of line * Ctrl-e to go to end of line
I love how osx supports emacs key-bindings by default for any text field.
I miss this feature a lot when I switch back to windows. I find myself pressing ctrl-n in my browser's address bar, expecting to view my URL history, and instead I get a new windows.
If anyone knows of a way to get similar functionality in windows, I would love to hear about it!
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#129Nobody seems to have posted this yet: python -m SimpleHTTPServer I'd recommend an alias like "serve". It basically puts the current directory online (binds to 0.0.0.0:8000).
Am I wrong to have long dismissed this as little more than an easter egg, or, at best, a toy server to test basic webpage functionality?
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Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X
#130Nobody seems to have posted this yet: python -m SimpleHTTPServer I'd recommend an alias like "serve". It basically puts the current directory online (binds to 0.0.0.0:8000).
Related:
python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:25