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Migrating to Mac from Ubuntu

pros:

  • fonts are amazing
  • display is great. cons:
  • limited features in terms of remapping key combos. listed in Issues section. mostly, are solved/workaround.

Issues

  • issue: hate touch bar. no tactile feedback on touching esc

  • solution: map caps lock to escape.

  • issue: window vertical resize is missing

  • solution: installed mjolnir. created few lua functions (./init.lua) to do the same. also, used it for moving windows horizontally.

  • issue: ctrl, fn key positions are swapped

  • solution: use karabiner. remap fn key to ctrl key. made life far better.

  • issue: alt+p doesnt work in terminal

  • background: in place of alt, there is command key. option key is equivalent to alt key, for mac. so need to do two things:

    • swap command and option keys. solution: it can be done in keyboard prefs->modifier keys-> update option, command key mappings.
    • command+p is mapped to 'print'. It cant be modified in terminal app. possible solution is to use iterm2 app but even that is complicated since apparently, cmd+p cant be remapped.
      • solution: workaround. use diff key combo to backward/forward search. found command+t/g is unmapped. so used it instead.

  • terminal: used novel color scheme. a little brighter than usual.

  • command line editing: ctrl+a to move to beg, +e to move to end. ctrl+u to clear till beginning, +k to clear till end. option+arrows to move wordwise left/right. option+D to delete word, forward. ctrl+W to delete word backward.

  • issue: key press&hold in mac doesnt repeat the key. instead, it can be configured to type something else.

  • solution: disable this behaviour. defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false -> restart

  • issue: migrate data from ubuntu to mac.

  • solution: ssh/scp didnt work. both laptops in same network. TL/DR: install filezilla and then, copying worked.

  • issue: bash autocomplete doesnt work. kubectl isnt working

  • solution: bash on mac is old.