Configure My Mac

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Update date: Apr. 8

Emacs

Since several keybindings of Emacs conflict with Mac OSX, I changed some keyboard settings. System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Input Sources, I changed the shortcut for “Select the previous input source” to “ctrl + shift + space” to enable using “C-" in Emacs.

ssh config and .bash_aliases

Update date: Feb. 19

• Add shortcut to ssh, by modifying .ssh/config. For example, I can directly connect to the Lind cluster using ssh cse-lind.
• Create ~/.bash_aliases file and create short cut in command line. Reference. Then run source ~/.bash_profile.

Softwares installed

• Daily Tools
  • Be Focused
  • Wunderlist
  • CheatSheet (show shortcuts)
  • Dr. Unarchiver
  • Clocker (show worldwide time)
  • Spectacle (split screen)
  • Grammarly (check grammar)
  • EuDic
  • Typist
• Developing Tools
  • Pycharm
  • CLion
  • Anaconda
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Octave (do scentific computation, just like Matlab)
  • R
  • RStudio
  • Python 3.7 (have modified its alias in the .bash_profile to be python3)

Configurations modified

• Modify the alias of python3.7

  1	alias python3="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin/python3.7"

• Set multiple accounts in Git, by using ssh to connect. Refer details in Git Notes.

• Open the firewall of Mac in order to allow box to work. (On the Security & Privacy part in System Preferences)

• Change the port of the jekyll blog to 5000, since the previous port 4000 conflicts with Nomachine and box.

Configuration in softwares

Xcode

• Add the terminal shortcut: command + `
  1. write a shell file containing the following two lines, in my case, I save it as openTerminal.sh.

     1 2	#!/bin/bash open -a Terminal "`pwd`"

  2. Xcode Preferences -> Behaviors -> User ‘+’ to add a new behavior -> set the shortcuts -> in the right pane Run, choose to run openTerminal.sh.
• Adjust the font sizes.
  1. Close all of the projects
  2. Select the items that need font change
  3. Change the font and size. See details.