MacOS Lion Sanity

My changes to macOS Lion to make it work more like how I prefer

zsh history verify#

I was surprised by this, the new version of zsh (4.3.11) (or Apple when configuring it) sets the histverify option. This means if you want to use the ! prefix or !! for executing previous commands you’ll need to press enter twice:

peter@laptop:~$ echo x   x
peter@laptop:~$ sudo !!
peter@laptop:~$ sudo echo x   x   
peter@laptop:~$   `  

Not the most annoying feature in the world but it does slow me down. I prepended unsetopt histverify to my .zshrc to disable this.

Inverted scrolling#

I understand this feature. I like this feature. But I use Windows, Linux and OS X daily (on my own and other peoples computers) and this would confuse my brain. System Preferences, Trackpad, Scroll & Zoom, “Scroll Direction: Natural” unticked

Keep three finger swipe left and right for browers#

This is already a well established multitouch gesture. Three finger swipe left and right to navigate history. I don’t want to use it to switch desktops. System Preferences, Trackpad, More Gestures, “Swipe between pages” to “swipe left or right with three fingers” and “Swipe between full-screen apps” to “Swipe left with four fingers”