I've just installed these dotfiles on a 2009 white macbook rocking OS X Lion.

I'm pretty sure the .brew and .osx files aren't initialising at all using the bootstrap script. Is the .brew file supposed to launch during install?

function json() {
    if [ -p /dev/stdin ]; then
        while read data; do
            python -mjson.tool <<< "$data" | pygmentize -l javascript
        done
    else
        python -mjson.tool <<< "$*" | pygmentize -l javascript
    fi
}

# now these will both work:
json '{"foo":42}'
echo '{"foo":42}' | json

Thanks to @janmoesen for the -p tip.

Refer to this article: http://psung.blogspot.com/2009/01/command-line-substitute-for-gitk.html

essentially suggests aliasing gl to a very rich version of gitk via cli. Try it out

http://superuser.com/questions/11026/textmate-creates-temporary-files-and-doesnt-delete-them

defaults write com.macromates.textmate OakDocumentDisableFSMetaData 1

function gsay { local lang=nl str="$*" tmp="/tmp/gsay.$$.mp3" i=0 line; [ -t 0 ] || str="$(cat)"; fmt -w 100 <<< "$str" | while read -r line; do url="http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=$lang&q=${line//&/%26}"; url="${url// /+}"; curl -sH 'User-Agent: Notabot' "$url" >| "$tmp" && afplay "$tmp"; done; rm -f "$tmp"; }

/by @janmoesen

I'm not sure from which version has changed, but in 10.6.3 (latest) is no longer:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-arrow-links -bool false

now is:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-link-arrows -bool false

and it's disabled by default

@janmoesen has some useful default settings here: https://github.com/janmoesen/tilde/blob/master/.wgetrc

This should probably be near the top since it requires the user to change the locale.

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences AppleLocale "sv_SE"
sudo defaults write /var/root/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences AppleLocale "sv_SE"

Instead of blowing changes away with rsync.

It’s annoying when trying out changes to have to edit files in ~/dotfiles, then run bootstrap.sh after each change.

Perhaps there is a way to keep the .git directory in ~/dotfiles but use the files in ~?

I’ll do that once I clean it up :)

@necolas suggested :set guicursor=n:blinkon0, which prevents the cursor from blinking in normal mode.

Today I rebooted my Mac and ended up with the trackpad's bottom-right corner no longer mapped to right-click (for whatever reason). The .osx setting (see below) didn't seem to make any difference and I had to manually change the setting in System Prefs.

# Map bottom right Trackpad corner to right-click
defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad TrackpadCornerSecondaryClick -int 2
defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad TrackpadRightClick -bool true

BTW, I'm using Snow Leopard.

See this gist: https://gist.github.com/1230038

This blew away my homedir even though I said "n" :(

2 finger swipe for back/forward in web browser history is really annoying as it matches the swipe used for scrolling left/right.
I have mine set to 3-finger swipe back/forward by default. Would be great to have this set in dotfiles too.

https://bitbucket.org/sjl/dotfiles/src/tip/vim/.vimrc

I was confused as to why I wasn't getting pygementized output, then I found this:

# `cat` with beautiful colors. requires Pygments installed.
#                              sudo easy_install Pygments
alias c='pygmentize -O style=monokai -f console256 -g'

# Trim new lines and copy to clipboard
alias c="tr -d '\n' | pbcopy"

Maybe you knew, maybe you didn't.

I don't know if anyone else uses this combination as much as I do, but I thought I'd suggest it.

Perhaps psg [whatver]?

Include https://github.com/github/gitignore and https://github.com/simonwhitaker/gitignore-boilerplates. AFAICT, they're universally useful.

This is a quick check to see if you'd find this useful.

This command no longer seems to work with Mountain Lion:

defaults write com.apple.menuextra.battery ShowTime -string "YES"

Any alternatives?
Should there be versions included here to determine which settings no longer function in newer versions of OSX

Like rm -rfv /Volumes/*/.Trashes but with a filter so it only targets external volumes (e.g. not the main HDD).

@janmoesen suggested to use something like system_profiler SPUSBDataType -xml to get a list of USB-connected volumes.

Edit: Hmm, might as well empty all Trashes, including those on local partitions.

See c03c541#commitcomment-1640833. /cc @sindresorhus

The hosts would have to be in an environment variable, e.g. $EXTRAHOSTS.

(suggested by @paulirish)

As I do this for every new install, I’d like to enable the “Use black and white menu bar icons” Dropbox setting programatically (from within.osx, perhaps).

Sadly, rather than using a .plist file, Dropbox seems to store this setting in ~/.dropbox/config.dbx, which is an encrypted SQLite database.

Filing this issue in case there’s a workaround that’s not too complex.

Refer to http://deansofer.com/posts/view/8/Quickly-Moving-in-Terminal

This was sort of reset when I installed, but I thought others might want this too.

# Disable menu bar transparency
defaults write -g AppleEnableMenuBarTransparency -bool false

This has been available as a checkbox in System Preferences for ages.

For non-dev friends who don’t use Git but still want to have a decent OS X setup. Something like:

cd
for file in aliases bash_profile bash_prompt bashrc exports functions gitattributes gitconfig gitignore inputrc osx vimrc; do
    echo "Downloading .${file}"
    curl -O# "https://raw.github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/master/.${file}"
done
echo "Done"

https://github.com/thalweg/dotfiles/blob/master/.bash_profile#L23-49

I trusted bootstrap.sh to do some fancy stuff but instead it ended up deleting my carefully crafted bashrc....
Did I miss something ? Please WARN the people if this is going to modify essential files !!!!

$ defaults read com.apple.spotlight orderedItems
(
        {
        enabled = 1;
        name = APPLICATIONS;
    },
        {
        enabled = 1;
        name = "SYSTEM_PREFS";
    },
        {
        enabled = 1;
        name = DIRECTORIES;
    },
        {
        enabled = 1;
        name = PDF;
    },
        {
        enabled = 1;
        name = FONTS;
    },
        {
        enabled = 0;
        name = DOCUMENTS;
    },
        {
        enabled = 0;
        name = MESSAGES;
    },
        {
        enabled = 0;
        name = CONTACT;
    },
        {
        enabled = 0;
        name = "EVENT_TODO";
    },
        {
        enabled = 0;
        name = IMAGES;
    },
        {
        enabled = 0;
        name = BOOKMARKS;
    },
        {
        enabled = 0;
        name = MUSIC;
    },
        {
        enabled = 0;
        name = MOVIES;
    },
        {
        enabled = 0;
        name = PRESENTATIONS;
    },
        {
        enabled = 0;
        name = SPREADSHEETS;
    },
        {
        enabled = 0;
        name = SOURCE;
    }
)

…and…

$ plistbuddy -c "Print :orderedItems" ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spotlight.plist
Array {
    Dict {
        enabled = 1
        name = APPLICATIONS
    }
    Dict {
        enabled = 1
        name = SYSTEM_PREFS
    }
    Dict {
        enabled = 1
        name = DIRECTORIES
    }
    Dict {
        enabled = 1
        name = PDF
    }
    Dict {
        enabled = 1
        name = FONTS
    }
    Dict {
        enabled = 0
        name = DOCUMENTS
    }
    Dict {
        enabled = 0
        name = MESSAGES
    }
    Dict {
        enabled = 0
        name = CONTACT
    }
    Dict {
        enabled = 0
        name = EVENT_TODO
    }
    Dict {
        enabled = 0
        name = IMAGES
    }
    Dict {
        enabled = 0
        name = BOOKMARKS
    }
    Dict {
        enabled = 0
        name = MUSIC
    }
    Dict {
        enabled = 0
        name = MOVIES
    }
    Dict {
        enabled = 0
        name = PRESENTATIONS
    }
    Dict {
        enabled = 0
        name = SPREADSHEETS
    }
    Dict {
        enabled = 0
        name = SOURCE
    }
}

Based on this output, I’d expect the following to work:

defaults write com.apple.spotlight orderedItems -array "{ enabled = 1; name = APPLICATIONS; }" "{ enabled = 1; name = \"SYSTEM_PREFS\"; }" "{ enabled = 1; name = DIRECTORIES; }" "{ enabled = 1; name = PDF; }" "{ enabled = 1; name = FONTS; }" "{ enabled = 0; name = DOCUMENTS; }" "{ enabled = 0; name = MESSAGES; }" "{ enabled = 0; name = CONTACT; }" "{ enabled = 0; name = \"EVENT_TODO\"; }" "{ enabled = 0; name = IMAGES; }" "{ enabled = 0; name = BOOKMARKS; }" "{ enabled = 0; name = MUSIC; }" "{ enabled = 0; name = MOVIES; }" "{ enabled = 0; name = PRESENTATIONS; }" "{ enabled = 0; name = SPREADSHEETS; }" "{ enabled = 0; name = SOURCE; }"

However:

Ideas on how to get this to work are welcome!

What about adding these keybindings to .inputrc?

"\e[1~": beginning-of-line       # Home key
"\e[4~": end-of-line             # End key
"\e[5~": history-search-backward # Page Up
"\e[6~": history-search-forward  # Page Down
"\e[3~": delete-char             # Delete key
"\e[5C": forward-word            # Ctrl+right
"\e[5D": backward-word           # Ctrl+left

The previous method of showing/hiding hidden files in Finder no longer works for me on 10.8

This, however, does work:

# Show hidden files
defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES; killall -HUP Finder
# Hide hidden files
defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles NO; killall -HUP Finder

(I also use the -HUP flags on killall to request finder relaunch instead of forcing it to. Unrelated to this issue.)

A nifty way of detecting the OS or for this specific capability may be needed, or just run both old and new commands when the user triggers these in .aliases.

UPDATE: This also affects showing and hiding desktop icons. Click here to skip ahead to the (lack of) solution: #102 (comment)

The set binary option causes problems with tab-to-space conversion.

I also have this:

" Use 4 spaces for indentation and replace tabs in an intelligent way
set sw=4 sts=4 et

When combined with set binary, tabbing twice results in a tab rather than 8 spaces. Removing the set binary fixes the problem.

hd alias for hexdump -C: janmoesen/tilde@101376f

In case you do ssh foo 'command', there’s no need to load the dotfiles… So: [ -n "$PS1" ] && source ~/.bash_profile (https://github.com/janmoesen/tilde/blob/master/.bashrc)

I'm not sure how to do this really. I've made a lot of changes to the code I branched from your code base, but their is one particular bit of the code I would like to push your way.

I've altered the ".bash_prompt" file to improve readability (for me) and to add SVN support. I thought you might want a look (https://github.com/manix84/dotfiles/blob/master/.bash_prompt).

I would be very interested to find out what you think of the changes I've made (good or bad).

You are printing a message after kill the Terminal, the message will never show up.

I'm applying this to my .osx

###############################################################################
# Kill affected applications or restart the system                            #
###############################################################################

echo "Done. Note that some of these changes require a logout/restart to take effect."
echo "To restart the system press [r] or to kill affected apps press [k]"

read option

if [ $option == "r" ]; then
    sudo shutdown -r now
elif [ $option == "k" ]; then
    for app in "Address Book" "Contacts" "iCal" "Calendar" "Dock" "Finder" "Mail" \
        "Safari" "iTunes" "SystemUIServer" "Terminal" "Twitter"; do
        killall "$app" > /dev/null 2>&1
    done
fi

what do you think about this?

I've been looking for ways to control which app is the default to open certain file types. This way, when I install my dotfiles on another machine I don't have to use Finder to change the default app used to open .html, .css, etc., files when opened from Finder...that would be a real PITA.

Here are a couple of promising links:

http://superuser.com/questions/20822/where-does-mac-os-x-store-file-association-information
http://superuser.com/questions/273756/how-to-change-default-app-for-all-files-of-particular-file-type-through-terminal

With your superior defaults write-fu, you might find the solution (or lack of) sooner than me.

Allow clicking the clock in the login window to reveal IP, hostname, OS version, etc.

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow AdminHostInfo HostName

Source: http://twitter.com/gmarnin/status/217800597540323328

I need to test if this still works with OS X 10.8.

Is there a script to uninstall/revert back to defaults? If not, this would probably be a quick improvement.

Via MacWorld:

# Change Safari 6 default fonts
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2StandardFontFamily 'Lucida Grande'
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2DefaultFontSize 14
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2FixedFontFamily Consolas
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2DefaultFixedFontSize 11

# Remove useless icons from Safari’s bookmarks bar
defaults write com.apple.Safari ProxiesInBookmarksBar "()"

This is available in Safari’s Preferences: “Bookmarks” tab → first two checkboxes.

Any chance we could get awesome colored autocomplete like this?
http://i.imgur.com/tN6w3.png

Some work for zsh has been done here
http://www.reddit.com/r/zsh/comments/msps0/color_partial_tab_completions_in_zsh/c367xqo

Yes, you can do it with things like that:
zstyle -e ':completion::default' list-colors 'reply=("${PREFIX:+=(#bi)($PREFIX:t)(?)==02=01}:${(s.:.)LS_COLORS}")'
Just change the 01 and 02 colors so it matches your taste, for example to match your screenshot:
zstyle -e ':completion::default' list-colors 'reply=("${PREFIX:+=(#bi)($PREFIX:t)(?)==34=34}:${(s.:.)LS_COLORS}")';

As you all know, Dock icons can be removed by simply clicking them and dragging them out of the Dock. As soon as the “poof” animation appears, you can release the mouse button to remove the icon.

It seems like in Mountain Lion there is a bit of a delay plus a minimum distance required between when you start dragging and when the “poof” animation appears, i.e. when you can release the mouse button to remove the icon. If you release the mouse button before the “poof” animation appears, the icon won’t be deleted from the Dock. If you don’t drag the icon far enough away from the Dock, the “poof” animation won’t appear at all, and again the icon won’t be deleted from the Dock when you release the mouse button.

Is there a hidden setting (defaults write-style) or some other way to disable this delay and/or minimum distance setting?

Note: I’ve cross-posted this on http://apple.stackexchange.com/q/57617/4408.

Maybe an .editorconfig file would be a good addition?

From: http://editorconfig.org/

EditorConfig helps developers define and maintain consistent coding styles between different editors and IDEs.
The EditorConfig project consists of a file format for defining coding styles and a collection of text editor plugins
that enable editors to read the file format and adhere to defined styles. EditorConfig files are easily readibly and
they work nicely with version control systems.

Allow ./foo/bar/baz/bootstrap.sh.

defaults write com.apple.iCal IncludeDebugMenu -bool true

Apparently no longer exists this option in mountain lion!

I've tried also:

defaults write com.apple.Calendar IncludeDebugMenu -bool true

but isn't works. =/

I’m considering adding a copy of ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist to the init folder, and a script or a check in .osx to move it to the correct location if iTerm is available.

The problem is this cannot be done from within iTerm itself, else the imported settings would get overwritten upon exit.

By iterating over th SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.extensions_map dict, appending ";charset=UTF-8" to each item. Something like:

import SimpleHTTPServer; m = SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.extensions_map; m[''] = 'text/plain'; for k, v in m.items():
    m[k] = v + ';charset=UTF-8';
SimpleHTTPServer.test();

(untested)

Fun fact:

If you’re actually writing Python 3, then you would use { k: v+";charset=UTF-8" for k, v in d.items() } instead.

Note: Serving binary files as UTF-8 is not done, but it doesn’t actually break anything. Since server is only used for quick localhost tests, I don’t think anyone will mind.

Enable tap to click for login screen doesn't seem to work for me on 10.8 even after a restart. Anyone else had this issue?

I'm getting an error on this line:

[ -e ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db ] && rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db

Mac OS X 10.7