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OS X defaults
### Useful defaults
### Extracted from the .osx file of Mathias Bynens
### https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
### Finder stuff
# Expand save panel by default
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool true
# Save to disk (not to iCloud) by default
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false
# Automatically quit printer app once the print jobs complete
defaults write com.apple.print.PrintingPrefs "Quit When Finished" -bool true
# Disable the “Are you sure you want to open this application?” dialog
defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool false
# Finder: allow text selection in Quick Look
defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool true
# When performing a search, search the current folder by default
defaults write com.apple.finder FXDefaultSearchScope -string "SCcf"
# Disable the warning when changing a file extension
defaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableExtensionChangeWarning -bool false
# Avoid creating .DS_Store files on network volumes
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool true
# Enable AirDrop over Ethernet and on unsupported Macs running Lion
defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces -bool true
### iTunes stuff
# Disable the iTunes store link arrows
defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-link-arrows -bool false
# Disable the Ping sidebar in iTunes
defaults write com.apple.iTunes disablePingSidebar -bool true
# Disable all the other Ping stuff in iTunes
defaults write com.apple.iTunes disablePing -bool true
# Make ⌘ + F focus the search input in iTunes
# To use these commands in another language, browse iTunes’s package contents,
# open `Contents/Resources/your-language.lproj/Localizable.strings`, and look
# for `kHiddenMenuItemTargetSearch`.
# Andi: There's no kHiddenMenuItemTargetSearch, but there's a kMenuItemTargetSearch. And this opens search by cmd+alt+f
#defaults write com.apple.iTunes NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add "Target Search Field" "@F"
### Mail.app stuff
# Copy email addresses as `foo@example.com` instead of `Foo Bar <foo@example.com>` in Mail.app
defaults write com.apple.mail AddressesIncludeNameOnPasteboard -bool false
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