manual.txt

Things to set up manually:

Dropbox
SSH Keys
GUI settings tweaking

# Make the terminal prompt UNIX-style
echo 'export PS1="\u@\h:\W$ "' >> ~/.bashrc

# Help OS X figure out that the hostname should be, you know, your actual hostname. Not usernames-Macbook-Pro
System Preferences -> Sharing -> Set the "Computer Name" to the hostname you want to appear in your terminal prompt.

# Terminal Preferences
Terminal -> Preferences. Under Profiles, select Homebrew Profile and click Default to make it the default.

# Change background color to soothing Ubuntu purple
Terminal -> Preferences -> Settings Tab -> Window Tab -> Color and Effects
Then click on the horizontal sliders tab and select "RGB slider" from the dropdown. For the Ubuntu purple color, set Red to 48, Green to 10, and Blue to 36. Set transparency to 90%

# Change Text color to white
Terminal -> Preferences -> Settings Tab -> Text Tab
Click Text and use the color selectors to set Text, Bold Text, and Cursor to white.

Terminal -> Preferences -> Advanced
Uncheck "Audible bell"

Dock Settings -> Minimize windows into application icons.

Settings -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Tab should move between all controls. This allows you to tab in dailog boxes.

Settings -> General -> Show Scroll Bars set to Always to eliminate problem of not being able to select the last item in a finder window with a number of files and directories.

Beginning of line and end of line shortcuts in iterm 2. iterm2 preferences -> keys -> Add shortcut with Send escape sequence [H (beginning of line) and create another shortcut for [F (end of line). The shortcuts should be command+left arrow and command+right arrow, respectively.


System Preferences -> Dock
Position on Screen: Left

iterm2 shortcut to switch through tabs should be alt+command+arrow to mirror sublime-text and chrome. By default, command+T is used for a new tab.

Sublime settings.
open_files_in_new_window should be set to false.