I was aware of macports for quite some time (since I moved to macOS about 8 years ago) But most of the tools seem to be suggesting brew install, so I didn’t give macports a second thought. 8 years later, my MBP is old, and soon will not be supported by Apple and brew While I upgraded to macOS monterey, this is going to be last version supported on this hardware.
Continue Reading »As I intended and mentioned here - I have started upgrade to macOS Monterey. I had already taken backup. (I don’t expect the entire data to be lost, but still ..) Just before I clicked the upgrade button - I created a list of software I need to re-install after the upgrade. I also went ahead and deleted apps left-right and center from the Applications folder. Nice (and not so nice) stroll down the memory lane.
Continue Reading »The tips from my previous post didn’t quite work while writing the blog post using helix editor. But as much as I can guess, it is a feature of the terminal and not the editor itself. So no point searching “Accent marks in Helix” 😄 Turns out initially1 wezterm didn’t support accent mark without special configuration. ('use_ime = true'), but since then it is enabled by default. Yet, it didn’t work for me.
Continue Reading »In my previous post I needed to type letter é but didn’t know how. (So I just copied it from the browser page that search result returned, explaining how to type accent marks on macOS 🧠) But later, I searched and got it working. We use what is called as Dead Key method. In Keyboard viewer, pressing the ALT (or Option) key, shows the dead keys. So to type é, I press ALT+e, this produces the accent, then (after releasing ALT) I press e.
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