Mac Diary 2018

2018-08-20

• I’m back to Mac after about 5 years, so notes

• I was relieved that most Unix commands are included, but beware that when you try to use Git, it asks you to install additional commands.

• The default Python included is 2.7 series

• The position that MacPorts used to occupy is now occupied by homebrew.

• I remembered that Cmd+Shift+4 can take a screenshot of a specified range, but it saves the file to the desktop.

  • Adding Ctrl goes directly to the clipboard.
    • → Touch bar to change the destination.

• Live conversion now converts more and more while typing, convenient!

  • However, there are cases where a mistake is made and the momentum is even converted.
  • I have a habit of hitting the space key after typing a paragraph.
  • Hitting the space key when the correct candidate has already been converted by Live Conversion will convert to a different candidate.
  • Up arrow to return

• Ctrl+Space is mapped to input switching in the default key bindings, so I removed it.

  • I had trouble with range selection in Emacs until I noticed this.
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• What is the shortcut equivalent to Win+D that displays the desktop?

  • F11 or four-finger diagonal spread gesture

• It seems like they’ve introduced two different strengths for the touchpad touch, but I’m still getting used to it.

• I’m not sure how it behaves when the window is maximized.

  • Maybe maximizing the window treats it as a virtual desktop.
  • So when hovering over a file on the desktop to the dock icon, it says “no window available”.
  • If it’s not maximized and just hidden by another window, it will appear properly.

• I memorized “Hey Siri, Remind me tomorrow at 10:00.”

• Install Slack

  • I almost accidentally create a new account.
  • If you already have an account, log in
  • Where you designate a workspace, even if you know what you’re doing, you say, “I don’t know.
  • Enter your email and you will receive a link to a list of workspaces you belong to.

• voiced sound separation problem

  • Probably due to the fact that when I open a PDF in Preview on my Mac and copy and paste it, the Mac does an NFD normalization that separates the punctuation marks

  • https://qiita.com/takuyabe/items/ac13aa99306ad69743e7

    • Shortcut key to neologd.normalize

  • Circle symbol with backslash

• The reason brew install doesn’t work is because there is a proxy on the company network.

• Didn’t Crtl+gesture zoom? I thought so, but it was off by default.

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2018-09-13

• I frequently forget to press Ctrl to put screenshots into the clipboard, and there are far more times when I put screenshots into the clipboard than when I save them to a file, so I’ve replaced the shortcut keys.

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  • I thought the behavior used to be “save to file but also go into the clipboard”.

• When I try to move between desktops, “Back in browser” is triggered.

  • Uncheck “Trackpad” → “Other Gestures” → “Swipe between pages” in System Preferences.
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• ASCII.jp: Techniques to customize and utilize the Touch Bar on MacBook Pro (1/2)｜Tomonobu Yanagitani’s “PC Utilization Techniques You’ll Want to Copy”

  • To do or not to do (muddled feeling)

• ESC is moving to the touch bar, weird feeling when copying and pasting in Emacs.

  • Configure Cmd to map to Meta.
  • Some say it’s a bad idea to use Emacs.
    • I can’t throw it away for when I’m working on the terminal, but I have a theory that you’re using Emacs even in cases where you could use a GUI editor.
    • What is a good text editor?
      • (Supplemental 2019) Visual Studio Code.
        • open foo.py” from the terminal opens it as a new tab in the running VSCode

• Turn off automatic quote and line changes.

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  • Mystery why it’s in the user dictionary tab.

• Discard CapsLock

  • Keyboard→Keyboard→Modifier Keys
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• Use C-[ instead of Esc

  • I recommend TouchBar MBP because it forces you to C-[! I was finally able to correct it.

    • [Why Ctrl-becomes Esc in terminal apps - Humanity
  • I completely forgot, yes I did.
  • So the question of whether to map Cmd to Meta was concluded to be C-[.

• Finder Preferences

  • I want to display the extension
  • When searching, I want to search from the current folder, not the entire Mac.
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• Turn off guess candidate conversion

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    • It’s inconvenient because of the mysterious conversions that occur.
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