# My first take on Macbook Air M1 > Started on 2022/6/24. > **Disclaimer**: I don't use an iPhone. ## Notable zsh config Why there's no default .zshrc provided??? My suggestion would be copying from Debian's default one at `/etc/skel`. Note that I mainly use bash (dash) on Linux. * Homebrew * ["command-not-found"](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-command-not-found). > But it is *very* slow comparing to the Linux one. * Prevent Homebrew from [auto-updating](https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/293252): Add `export HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1` to `.zprofile`. * dircolors * You need to install `coreutils` for the `dircolors` utility (beware that is `gdircolors` on brew). See [this comment](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/91937/mac-os-x-dircolors-not-found#comment978405_91978). * Remove `/` from `WORDCHARS`: `export WORDCHARS='*?_-.[]~=&;!#$%^(){}<>'` * Make <kbd>Alt+d</kbd> more useful BSD commands are less forgiving than those in GNU coreutils (I mean `rm ... -rf`, or `ls ... -al`). ### Bash globstar https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/291290/464631 ## Python! ```bash sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/python sudo ln -s /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/python ./python3 ``` If you don't link the one in Xcode SDK, it will fail with the following error when `/usr/local/bin/python` is invoked, "xcode-select: Failed to locate 'python', requesting installation of command line developer tools." However, pip will stuck indefinitely if you do the same thing to it. I wonder why. Do the following instead. ```bash sudo ln -s /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/pip3 /usr/local/bin/pip ``` ## IME I mainly use **RIME** on Mac (鼠鬚管，[squirrel](https://github.com/rime/squirrel)). My own bopomofo input solution [iridium-bpmf](https://github.com/andy0130tw/iridium-bpmf) works on 鼠鬚管. Some tweaks are required, as I was developing for ibus-rime mainly. * Mac cannot distinguish between `Shift_L` and `Shift_R` (the [(non-)issue](https://github.com/rime/squirrel/issues/35)). * Iridium's key-bindings when the candidate list arrangement is horizontal (which is preferred) cannot work properly due to hardcoded selector keys. (Infeasible without patching the source.) ## Terminal emulator [iTerm2](https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2), an extremely versatile terminal emulator. ## My curated list of open source projects * [Alt-tab](https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos), GPL v3. Make the behavior of option+tab similar to alt+tab on Windows. * [Stats](https://github.com/exelban/stats), MIT. A system monitor on menu bar. Not very ideal, some widget design seems peculiar. But (claimed to be) efficient. I also prefer its battery indicator over the built-in one. * ~~[iGlance](https://github.com/iglance/iGlance), GPL v3.~~ Also a system monitor on menu bar. I forgot why this is on my list. * [Rectangle](https://rectangleapp.com/), MIT. Window snapping with ease. I don't use the hot keys for now, only appreciating the drag-and-drop behavior. * [CotEditor](https://github.com/coteditor/CotEditor), Apache v2. A lightweight text/code editor. Fast startups yet feature-rich. Thanks [Yu-Ren](https://github.com/YuRen-tw) for recommending this. A rather small list :)