When I tried to set my Terminal color by importing a color scheme stored in ~/Dropbox/.personal/myColor.Terminal
, it didn't display the hidden directories, including ~/Dropbox/.personal
(and other files and directories I store to my Dropbox root, such as .vimrc
or .gvimrc
).
Why does this not display it? I always show those hidden directories by setting the AppleShowAllFiles
property in com.apple.finder
to 1.
It's just the Terminal color setting import pane that I recognize to NOT be displayed - in other words, I've seen those hidden files everywhere on my daily use.
I can just move the color scheme file temporarily to import it on my Terminal - just want to know why such incongruity occurs.
I use the latest version of OS X Mavericks. Any feedbacks would be appreciated.
Update
I got that it's not only Terminal, but it can be applied to other applications as well, on which when you do Open Files
or Import
or similar operations, most applications don't display those hidden files. As far as I know, only MacVim has a checkbox option to open those hidden files.
com.apple.Terminal.plist
, then I can see the file's contents by issuingplutil -convert xml1 -o - com.apple.Terminal.plist
.ls
works properly. And I just noticed that it's not the issue on Terminal - check out my comment to the accepted answer.