In the spirit of this post, for those using Java for development on MacOS, I'll share my .zprofile which sets up a reasonable Java environment for working in the shell.
https://gist.github.com/bondolo/5ce1a1c0d38e72a80a79ac28f951...
Sensible macOS Defaults
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Re: Sensible macOS Defaults
#102I already use many of these and have learned several more good tips from reading this script.
In recent years Apple's default settings have trended more and more away from what keyboard-focused power users (i.e. developers) need, IMHO. That wouldn't be a big deal except they've also trended toward locking down those defaults to make them difficult to change. Scripts like this make it possible for me to continue doing development on the Mac without tearing my hair out.
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#103This is part of the reason I switched to Linux. I've heard so many people say "Linux is free only if you don't value your time" and then turn around and write one of these. If I'm going to go through the trouble of customizing an operating system to fit my needs, I may as well do it with a free and open system rather than MacOS, which can change for the worse at any moment (the dealbreaker for me was dropping 32 bit…
As a 26 year Linux user, I find it hilarious to imply it won't change for the worse at any time.
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#104So these settings are on a per user basis, or do they take effect system wide?
The sudo commands are system settings, the rest are user account settings.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I set my caps lock up to be escape Which was the only sensible thing to do when Apple dropped the ESC key ;) I'm so used to caps == ESC now, it takes me a minute to realize what's wrong when I'm on a new system/keyboard.
> I'm so used to caps == ESC now, it takes me a minute to realize what's wrong when I'm on a new system/keyboard. Isn't this a bad thing?
It's 1 key change, and since I use vim keybindings in almost everything it's much easier on the system I use 99.9% of the time.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Compare how much time you spend using your own system vs others'.
If you learn the default, it doesn't matter how much time you spend on any given system. I don't get why people make themselves less portable by becoming dependent on non-defaults.
The default is reaching to the top left corner of the keyboard. I know the default and it's terrible if someone uses vim. In macOS it's trivial to remap the caps lock key to ESC system wide through the built in preferences. So while it's not that way out the box, it's certainly in the realm of default configurations any user might make on their machine.
Re: Sensible macOS Defaults
#108Sensible for who? I wouldn't want many of these settings, and, for example, my parents would want almost none of them. These kind of scripts are almost never a good idea.
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#109As most of the comments here on HN are taking issue with the weirdly editorialised HN title, rather than with the content, it would be great if a moderator could change the title to something more accurate like "Mathias Bynens' macOS defaults"
I can change the title. I just set it to that because that is what Mathias calls it.
He does call them "sensible hacker defaults for macOS", which might get less criticism, but it's the repo title and there's no real indication that he's speaking to the general hacker public (and not privately to himself, as the "default hacker")
Or does he use this phrase in some blog post?
Either way it's not present on the linked file.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you tell that it's not a really long string or a web page but a script? Maybe it's just a pattern of dots projected on LCD or 1s and 0s stored on a computer. I don't see any more concrete proof that it's not any of these but a script.
> How do you tell that it's not a really long string or a web page but a script? `#!/usr/bin/env bash` is a bit of a dead giveaway.
I just see dots on my screen