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title: CS 1331 - Customization Tips

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<h1>Customization Tips</h1>

<h2><code>bash</code></h2>

<p>

These go in your <code>~/.bash_profile</code>.

</p>

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# My prompt string, which you see when I demonstrate in the terminal

export PS1="\[\033[32;1m\][\u@\h \w]\n$ \[\033[0m\]"

# Aliases to save some typing

alias ll='ls -la'

# Alias for Adobe Acrobat, so the open command still uses Preview

alias acroread='/Applications/Adobe\ Reader.app/Contents/MacOS/AdobeReader'

# A personal bin directory

export PATH=~/bin:$PATH

</pre>

<h2>Atom</h2>

<p>First, be sure to familiarize yourself with basic Atom usage. The <a href="https://atom.io/docs/v0.124.0/getting-started">Getting Started</a> guide is enough to make you quite proficient.</p>

<p>In Atom Prefrences, make sure the following are checked:</p>

<ul>

<li><em>Show Indent Guide</em> draws a vertical line at your preferred line length column in editors. Preferred line length should be set to 80.</li>

<li><em>Show Invisibles</em> draws greyed-out characters for spaces, TABs, hard returns.</li>

<li><em>Show Line Numbers</em> displays line numbers in the left gutter in editors. Personal preference, but I find it useful.</li>

<li><em>Soft Tabs</em> causes the editor to insert spaces instead of TAB characters when you hit the TAB key.</li>

<li><em>Soft Wrap</em> wraps lines visually on word boundaries. Together with <em>Show Line Numbers</em> you get readable text and can still easily tell long single lines.</li>

<li><em>Soft Wrap at Preferred Line Length</em> wraps lines visually on word boundaries at your preferred line length.</li>

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