While copying large amounts of files (lots of photos) I used to use Finder in the macOS. Good ol’ drag-n-drop

Usually it is reliable, but lately I’m facing some problems when copying files to external disk.

Finder itself would become unresponsive.

So I decided to use terminal instead.

It worked (kinda) but it took 51 minutes to finish the copy (There were a lot of files)

and as you know traditionally cp does not show progress.

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.

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. This adds é

While I was searching for useful snippets for Markdown (I was specifically looking for snippet to insert current time.)

I came across this article.

To be honest, it feels like cheating. Like writing HTML manually. (With snippets, work could reduce)

Did you see what I did there 😉