The command code . doesn’t work in this manual. All the other steps before that worked. How can I call the Visual Studio Code in an OS X terminal? pwd /Users/mona/nodejs/myExpressApp code . -bash: code: command not found I ended up opening it from within Visual Code Studio by changing the workspace, but why won’t that … Read more
I just downloaded Java 7u17 on Mac OS 10.7.5 from here and then successfully installed it. In order to do some JNI programming, I need to know where Java installed on my Mac. I thought that inside the /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/ folder, there would be a folder called 1.7.0.jdk or something, but then I found that the … Read more
I know the combination Ctrl+A to jump to the beginning of the current command, and Ctrl+E to jump to the end. But is there any way to jump word by word, like Alt+←/→ in Cocoa applications does? 18 s 18 On Mac OS X – the following keyboard shortcuts work by default. Note that you … Read more
Saw the following error when running an npm install which required node-gyp… but could be triggered by anything which requires xcode-select. xcode-select: error: tool ‘xcodebuild’ requires Xcode, but active developer directory ‘/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools’ is a command line tools instance What is the problem? 26 s 26 This problem happens when xcode-select developer directory was pointing to … Read more
I’m using BitBucket with Xcode and Git for version control, and recently I changed all of my passwords (thanks Adobe!). Unsurprisingly, I’m no longer able to push my local commits to my repository on BitBucket (Authentication failed for ‘https://______.git’), but I’m forgetting how to update the cached password on my iMac. Somehow I’ve been unable … Read more
What is the proper way to modify environment variables like PATH in OS X? I’ve looked on Google a little bit and found three different files to edit: /etc/paths ~/.profile ~/.tcshrc I don’t even have some of these files, and I’m pretty sure that .tcshrc is wrong, since OS X uses bash now. Where are these variables, … Read more
Currently I am using Node.js v0.6.16 on Mac OS X 10.7.4. Now I want to upgrade it to the latest Node.js v0.8.1. But after downloading and installing the latest package file from nodejs.org, I found that system is still using v0.6.16 instead of v0.8.1 when I typed “node -v” in a terminal. Is there any … Read more
Which files should I include in .gitignore when using Git in conjunction with Xcode? 22 s 22 I was previously using the top-voted answer, but it needs a bit of cleanup, so here it is redone for Xcode 4, with some improvements. I’ve researched every file in this list, but several of them do not … Read more
Final update: I had forgotten to run the initdb command. By running this command ps auxwww | grep postgres I see that postgres is not running > ps auxwww | grep postgres remcat 1789 0.0 0.0 2434892 480 s000 R+ 11:28PM 0:00.00 grep postgres This raises the question: How do I start the PostgreSQL server? … Read more
How can you change the default version of Java on a mac? 33 s 33