Hey David,
As Sam just mentioned, special preference commands are usually
executed on the command line (i.e., in the Terminal for most Mac users).
A few more tips:
1. As I've learned useful expert prefs, I collect them together
in a set of shell worksheets, one sheet each for BBEdit, other
apps, and the OS itself. Then when I want to evoke a specific
one, I only select that line of the worksheet, and hit Enter or
my current key-combo to execute.
Here's an entry on my BBEdit Prefs worksheet:
# Include delimiters in balance command
defaults write com.barebones.bbedit BalanceIncludesDelimiters
-bool YES
defaults write com.barebones.bbedit BalanceIncludesDelimiters
-bool NO
defaults read com.barebones.bbedit BalanceIncludesDelimiters
Of these three, use only one at a time, to set, un-set, or read
out the setting.
2. That latter is the answer to one of your questions. If you
use the command 'read' instead of 'write', the current setting
for that default pref will print out.
So if I select and hit Enter to execute the third command above
defaults read com.barebones.bbedit BalanceIncludesDelimiters
the output is 0 (zero) because I previously executed the pref
with -bool NO. That works in the Terminal, too, of course.
3. Some commands require root permissions, so on the Terminal
you'd precede the pref command with 'sudo'
# Make finder show User's Library directory
sudo chflags nohidden ~/Library
But worksheets aren't interactive, so when you get prompted for
your password, you can't enter it and continue. The two
solutions I've used:
* simply copy the pref command from the worksheet collection
and paste it in into a Terminal and press Enter;
* Take the more complex step of setting oneself (admin Mac
user) as a "sudoer" who can use sudo without having to enter
their password each time. This is a bit complicated, and I'm not
going to put the instructions here. (Ask and I will.)
HTH
On 6/14/20 at 7:38 PM, wagsworl...@gmail.com (David G Wagner) wrote:
I looked at the doc and did some searches on the net and either I used
the wrong wording or did not view the right outputs, but I never did
see how one is to set a particular expert preference or see what
expert preferences are set.
I tried a shell worksheet and executed ’env’ and got the output back.
But never understood how to set a preference or see what others are
set.
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