Macos on Raveen Kumar

Emacs keybindings work on macos

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I was suprised to find out that when I accidentally pressed ctrl-k on a line it killed it in macos. Looks like some emacs keybindings are supported system wide by default.

http://irreal.org/blog/?p=259

Explained in this blog post.

【Ctrl+f】, 【Ctrl+b】, 【Ctrl+a】, 【Ctrl+e】, 【Ctrl+k】, 【Ctrl+y】, 【Ctrl+p】, 【Ctrl+n】, and a few others work across the whole system.

Connect magic mouse to windows pc

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

connect magic mouse to windows pc

https://www.switchingtomac.com/tutorials/how-to-set-up-and-use-the-magic-mouse-on-windows/

Keyboard shortcut to unhide a window in macos

Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Cmd+tab to cycle. Then Press Option key and release the cmd key.

This is unintuitive as fuck but this is what we have sadly.

https://superuser.com/questions/196141/keyboard-shortcut-to-unhide-or-unminimize-a-window-in-os-x/325530#325530

Square crop an image in macos preview

Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In preview Cmd-k to enter selection mode, Shift and drag area to make a selection as a square Click crop from menu

https://www.macgasm.net/news/tips/get-a-perfectly-square-selection-in-preview/

How to fix imessage not syncing

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

If imessage is not syncing, do this.

Started synching after turn off and on the iMessage on both MacBook and iPhone

Download youtube videos using automator application in macos

Wed, 25 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Download youtube videos using automator application

Open Automator
New document
Example automator script
Download Youtube videos
- Application
- Get contents of clipboard
- Export paths

  echo "export PATH=$PATH:\$PATH"

- use yt-dlp program or shell script to Process and download the url
- Save
- Create icon for the new application
- Drag and drop the Newly created application into the dock

Usage
Copy an youtube url
https://youtu.be/YThelfB2fvg
Click icon in dock Wait till download completes
Watch