Setting Up and Customizing for Development

Sreeram Mandikal Sreenath

March 21st, 2016

A list of applications, utilities, settings, and more for web development on Mac OS X.

iTerm 2

Installation

Download and install the latest version of iTerm 2
Download the imgls, imgcat, download.sh, and divider scripts. Place them in /usr/bin and make them executable with chmod +x scriptname

Configuration

General
- Startup
  - Use System Window Restoration Setting
  - ☐ Open profiles window
- Closing
  - ☐ Quit when all windows are closed
  - ☐ Confirm closing multiple sessions
  - ☐ Confirm “Quit iTerm2 (⌘Q)” command”
- Magic
  - Instant Replay uses 4 MB per session
  - ☐ Save copy/paste and command history to disk
- Services
  - ☐ Add Bonjour hosts to Profiles
  - ☑ Check for updates automatically
  - Prompt for test-release updates
- Preferences
  - ☐ Load preferences from a custom folder or URL
  - ☐ Save changes to folder when Iterm2 quits
- Selection
  - ☑ Copy to pasteboard on selection
  - ☐ Copied text includes trailing newline
  - ☐ Applications in terminal may access clipboard
  - Characters considered part of word for selection: /-+\~_.
- Window
  - ☑ Smart window placement
  - ☑ Adjust window when changing font size
  - ☐ Zoom maximizes vertically only
  - ☐ Native full screen windows
- tmux Integration
  - Open tmux windows as native windows
  - Open dashboard if there are more than 10 tmux windows
  - ☐ Automatically hude the tmux client session after connecting
Appearance
- Tabs
  - Tab bar location: Top
  - Theme: Light
  - ☑ Show tab bar even when there is only one tab
  - ☑ Show tab numbers
  - ☐ Show tab close buttons
  - ☑ Show tab activity indicators
  - ☑ Flash tab bar when switching tabs in fullscreen
  - ☑ Show tab bar in fullscreen
- Panes
  - ☑ Show per-pane title bar with split panes
- Screen
  - ☑ Auto-hide menu bar in non-native fullscreen
- Window & Tab Titles
  - ☑ Show window number
  - ☑ Show current job name
  - ☐ Show profile name
- Dimming
  - ☑ Dimming affects only text, not background
  - Dimming amount: 20%
  - ☑ Dim inactive split panes
  - ☑ Dim background windows
- Window
  - ☐ Show border around window
  - ☑ Hide scrollbars
  - ☐ Disable transparency for fullscreen windows by default
Profiles (Default)
- General
  - Basics
    - Name: Default
    - Shortcut Key: ⌃⌘0 (Default)
    - Tags: default
    - Badge: ★
  - Command
    - Login shell
    - Send text at start: ``
  - Working Directory
    - Home directory
  - URL Schemes
    - Schemes handled: Select URL Schemes…
- Colors
  - Color Presets… > Import… maberger.itermcolors
- Text
  - Cursor
    - Vertical Bar
    - ☐ Blinking cursor
  - Text Rendering
    - ☑ Draw bold text in bold font
    - ☑ Draw bold text in bright colors
    - ☐ Blinking text allowed
    - ☑ Italic text allowed
    - Use thin strokes for anti-aliased text On Retina displays
  - Unicode
    - ☐ Treat ambiguous-width characters as double width (not recommended)
    - ☐ Use HFS+ Unicode normalization (better fidelity but slower)
  - Font
    - 15pt Droid Sans Mono Dotted for Powerline
    - ☑ Anti-aliased
    - ☐ Use a different font for non-ASCII text
- Window
- Window Appearance
  - Transparency: Opaque
  - ☐ Blur: Small Radius
- Settings for New Windows
  - Columns: 120
  - Rows: 36
  - ☐ Hide after opening
  - ☐ Open toolbelt
  - Style: Normal
  - Screen: No Preference
  - Space: Current Space
- Miscellaneous
  - ☐ If showing profile name in tab, keep it when the title is changed
  - ☐ Force this profile to open in a new window, never in a tab.
- Background Image
  - ☐ Background Image: None
- Terminal
  - Scrollback Buffer
    - Scrollback Lines: ☑ Unlimited Scrollback
    - ☐ Save lines to scrollback when an app status bar is present
    - ☑ Save lines to scrollback in alternate screen mode
  - Terminal Emulation
    - Character Encoding: Unicode (UTF-8)
    - Report Terminal Type xterm-256color
    - ENQ Answer
    - ☑ Enable mouse reporting
    - ☐ Terminal may report window title
    - ☑ Terminal may set tab/window title
    - ☐ Disable session-initiated printing
    - ☐ Disable save/restore alternate screen
    - ☑ Disable session-initiated window resizing
  - Notifications
    - ☐ Silence bell
    - ☑ Send Growl/Notification Center alerts
    - ☐ Flash visual bell
    - ☑ Show bell icon in tabs
  - Environment
    - ☑ Set locale variables automatically
  - Shell Integration
    - ☑ Insert newline before start of command prompt if needed
    - ☑ Show mark indicators
- Session
  - Closing
    - ☑ Automatically close a session when it ends
    - “Undo” can revive a session that has been closed for up to 5 seconds
    - Do not prompt before closing
  - Miscellaneous
    - ☐ Automatically log session input to files in:
    - ☐ When idle, send ASCII Code:
    - ☐ Avoid repainting while cursor is hidden to reduce flicker while scrolling
- Keys
  - Key Mappings
    - Load Preset… > xterm defaults
  - Keyboard Behavior
    - ☐ Delete key sends ⌃H
    - ☐ Allow application keypad mode
    - Left option (⌥) key acts as: Normal
    - Right option (⌥) key acts as: Normal
Keys
- Remap Modified Keys
  - Control (⌃) key: ⌃ Control
  - Left option (⌥) key: ⌥ Left Option
  - Right option (⌥) key: ⌥ Right Option
  - Left command (⌘) key: ⌘ Left Command
  - Left command (⌘) key: ⌘ Right Command
- Navigation Shortcuts
  - To switch panes: ` ` + Number
  - To switch tabs: ⌘ + Number
  - To switch windows: ⌥⌘ + Number
- Hotkey
  - ☐ Show/hide Iterm2 with a system-wide hotkey
- Key Mappings
  - Load Preset… > Factory Defaults
Pointer
- Mouse Button & Trackpad Gesture Actions
  - Load Defaults
- ☑ ⌘-Click Opens Filename/URL (Semantic History)
- ☐ ⌃-Click reported to apps, does not open menu
- ☑ ⌥-Click moves cursor
- ☐ Double-click performs smart selection
- ☐ Triple-click selects entire wrapped lines
- ☑ Three-finger tap emultes middle click
- ☐ Focus follows mouse
Advanced
- Badge
  - Font to use for the badge: Helvetica
  - Maximum height of the badge: 0.1
  - Maximum width of the badge: 0.5
  - Right Margin: 20
  - Should the badge render in bold type? Yes
  - Top Margin: 0

Sublime Text 3

Installation

Download and install the latest version of Sublime Text 3
Install Package Control through the console Ctrl + `
Setup the command line subl utility by running

ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/local/bin/subl

Configuration

Copy User/ directory contents into

/Users/Mark/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/User

Install Packages below

Packages

AdvancedNewFile
AutoFileName
Better JavaScript
CSS Extended Completions
CSS3
Dotfiles Syntax Highlighting
Emmet
fish-shell
Git
GitGutter-Edge
Google Spell Check
Gutter Color
Highlight
Jekyll
LaTeXTools
LiveStyle
LoremIpsum
Markdown Extended
Origami
Package Control
PackageResourceViewer
Pretty JSON
Python PEP8 Autoformat
PyV8
Sass
SCSS
StyleSorter
Theme - Afterglow
TrailingSpaces

Fish Shell

Installation

brew install fish

Configuration

echo "/usr/local/bin/fish" | sudo tee -a /etc/shells
chsh -s /usr/local/bin/fish
cp -r fish/ ~/.config/fish/
set -g -x PATH /user/local/bin $PATH

MenuMeters

Download and install the latest version from: http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/. Open the MenuMeters from System Preferences and apply the following settings:

CPU
- Display CPU Menu Meter: Percentage
- Update interval (seconds): 1.0
- Display percentage as: Total (medium text)
Network
- Display Network Menu Meter: Throughput
- Update interval (seconds): 1.0
- Display orientation: Receive/Transmit
- Ignore values below 1 KB/s
- Colors (For dark menu bar)
  - Transmit #007F40
  - Receive #7F0000
  - Inactive #686868

Spectacle

Download and install the latest version from: http://spectacleapp.com/. Shortcuts can be set manually, or automatically by running the .osx script. The following shortcuts will be applied:

Center: ⌃⌥⌘C
Fullscreen: ⌃⌥⌘F
Left Half : ⌃⌥⌘←
Right Half: ⌃⌥⌘→
Top Half: ⌃⌥⌘↑
Bottom Half: ⌃⌥⌘↓
Upper Left: ⌃⌥⌘1
Lower Left: ⌃⌥⌘3
Upper Right: ⌃⌥⌘2
Lower Right: ⌃⌥⌘4
Make Larger: ⌃⌥⌘=
Make Smaller: ⌃⌥⌘-

Set the following preferences from the menu bar icon:

Launch Spectacle at login
Run… in the status menu

BetterTouchTool

Settings
- Show Menubar Icon
- Launch BetterTouchTool on startup
- Window Snapping Enabled
Gestures
- Three Finger Tap - Middle Click
- Three Finger Swipe Left - ⌘←
- Three Finger Swipe Right - ⌘→
- Four Finger Tap - ⌘W
- Five Finger Click - Sleep Display

Applications

Internet
- Cyberduck
- Dropbox
- Google Drive
- Google Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox
- Opera
- Safari
- Transmission
Communication
- Limechat
- Skype
- Viber
- Slack
Media
- Handbrake
- Media-Info
- MPlayer OSX Extended
- mpv
- VLC
Utilities
IDEs and Text Editors
Tools
- brew
- Java
- JDK
- Node.js
- Python
- Ruby
Graphics and Design
- Adobe Lightroom
- Inkscape
- GIMP
- Paintbrush
- Pencil
- Pixelmator
Documents and Files
Virtualization
- VirtualBox
- Wine
Gaming
- OpenEmu
- Steam

Fonts

Google Fonts
- Droid Serif
- EB Garamond
- Lato
- Lora
- Roboto
- Open Sans
- Ubuntu
Powerline Fonts

Application Setup

Homebrew

Install the following packages:

brew install fish
brew install git-extras
brew install highlight
brew install ifstat
brew install imagemagick
brew install mpg123
brew install mpv
brew install python3
brew install ssh-copy-id
brew install tree
brew install unar

Node.js

To generate a list of globally installed packages:

npm list -g --depth=0

Install the following packages:

npm install -g bower
npm install -g diff-so-fancy
npm install -g generator-code
npm install -g grunt
npm install -g grunt-cli
npm install -g hackmyresume
npm install -g resume-cli
npm install -g uglifyjs
npm install -g vtop
npm install -g yo

pip

Download and install the latest version from: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/.

pip install livestreamer
pip install mps
pip install mps-youtube
pip install pygments

Dropbox

Setup symbolic links to avoid duplicating content in the root folder:

cd ~/Dropbox
ln -s ~/Development
ln -s ~/Documents
ln -s ~/Pictures

massren

  brew tap laurent/massren
  brew install massren
  massren --config "subl -n -w"

jq

Download and install the latest version from: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/.

mv ~/Downloads/jq-osx-amd64 /bin/jq
chmod +x /bin/jq