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Quick tip for developers who use OS X

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Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X

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Post by methodin »

guelo wrote: post #118

After making the switch to OS X in the last couple years after living in Linux and Windows before that, I think it's objective to say that keyboard shortcuts in OS X are much worse in both ease of use and consistency across applications.

It's especially painful if a Mac is not your primary development environment but you need to hack on one occasionally. I can have a familiar terminal or a familiar desktop but cannot have both simultaneously and there's no way to train myself to use the command key due to frequency.

Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X

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Post by egypturnash »

jlarocco wrote: post #140
guelo wrote: post #118

After making the switch to OS X in the last couple years after living in Linux and Windows before that, I think it's objective to say that keyboard shortcuts in OS X are much worse in both ease of use and consistency across applications.

I have to agree. I fought with it a while, looking for third party utilities to fill the void, but eventually I realized it was more trouble than it was worth and gave up. I guess I got used to it, because I don't even miss them any more.

If you want to change command key-centric menu shortcuts for a program, you can do that in the keyboard pane of system prefs.

Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X

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Post by yanokwa »

natch wrote: post #28

Useful when copy/pasting things to share with other people in email and such: $ pbpaste | pbcopy takes the current contents of the copy/paste buffer and removes color/font/background color rich formatting and puts just plain text back into the paste buffer. And of course pbcopy and pbpaste are also very useful on their own.

I use Plain Clip (http://www.bluem.net/en/mac/plain-clip/) for this. It also gives you optional text processing steps (e.g., remove all trailing whitespace) which are super useful.

Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X

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Post by meshko »

guelo wrote: post #118

After making the switch to OS X in the last couple years after living in Linux and Windows before that, I think it's objective to say that keyboard shortcuts in OS X are much worse in both ease of use and consistency across applications.

Generally speaking, OS X is amazingly bad at all things UI given how good it is.

Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X

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Post by eof »

juanre wrote: post #52

Bash, running in your terminal, understands both the Emacs and the Vi commands. By default is Emacs, so you can C-a (control-a) for beginning of line, C-p to go back in command line history, or C-r to search it. I prefer the Vi mode, though. Add to your .bashrc set -o vi Then you can press escape to go from input mode to normal mode; there k will take you to the previous line in command line history, j to the next li…

you can also go into visual mode (at least in vi mode).. pressing esc then v will launch your default editor with the current command in the buffer; saving an exiting runs the command; very useful for long commands and/or iterating

Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

guelo wrote: post #118

After making the switch to OS X in the last couple years after living in Linux and Windows before that, I think it's objective to say that keyboard shortcuts in OS X are much worse in both ease of use and consistency across applications.

Not just keyboard shortcuts, but straight out keys (e.g. Page up / Page down)

Re: Quick tip for developers who use OS X

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

scelerat wrote: post #121

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.

Just the fact that you can disable Caps Lock is a sanity-saver: thank you!
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