Questions tagged [settings]

Settings may refer to the tweaking which can be used to help improve the user-experience or performance etc.

Settings may refer to the tweaking which can be used to help improve the user-experience or performance etc. Settings typically represent a set of options which a user can choose from adjust the interface or controls of a certain application to their preferences.

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Storing vim settings with a document

Is there any way to save the state of vim settings with a document? To clarify: I'm editing a document and I change a bunch of settings. I don't necessarily recall which; and I don't want to use these settings again, except for the current document.…
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How can Visual Studio shortcut keys be used in Android Studio?

I am very familiar with the Visual Studio IDE, and am new to working with Android Studio. Is there a way to configure Android Studio so that the keyboard shortcuts that I'm used to from Visual Studio can be used in Android Studio?
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IntelliJ - Import configuration from old version after first run

I recently installed version 2017.2 of IntelliJ IDEA. I would like to keep my settings from my old 2017.1 version. IntelliJ's support site shows the following dialog box that is supposed to show up when you run the newly installed version for the…
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How Do I Sync My Sublime Text 3 Settings Using Dropbox?

I would like to sync Sublime Text 3's Settings across multiple machines using Dropbox. How should I set this up?
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In IntelliJ on OS X, how do you clear out all global setting info, licensing etc. (external to any project)

I am having some low level issues with IntelliJ on my mac, I really want to just zero everything out and start over. But even after removing the application and re-installing it, IntelliJ still remembers things like what the last project was, what…
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PyCharm: How to change the font size without zooming with mouse scroll?

As the title says, how can I change the font size in the editor by some value? I like the scrolling thing, but the problem is I have to scroll again and every time I open an IDE again. I found the settings for changing the value of the font size,…
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How do I disable cache in Safari 11.0?

I updated Safari today to 11.0 and the 'disable cache(s)' menu item (under Develop) is missing. Anyone know the new way to effect this?
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Call the official *Settings* app from my app on iPhone

At one point in my app, I would like to redirect the user to the official Settings app. If possible, I also want go straight to the Network section within the Settings app. I think what I need is the Settings app's url scheme and the format to…
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change line height in sublime text default theme after changing the font-size

I found this link on stackoverflow: Sublime Text 2 how to change the font size of the file sidebar? I followed the directions and changed the font size, but now the font is too big with too small of a line height, so it looks stacked on top of each…
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Detecting user settings for Background App Refresh in iOS 7

Starting with iOS 7, Apple's Multitasking APIs allow apps to run in three new Background Modes: Background fetch, Remote notification content, and Background transfer service. Apple also gives iOS users the ability to control whether all apps are…
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How to change the default target branch for merges in Gitlab

we are using Gitlab 8.10.1 with many groups and projects. Many of the projects happen to be forks of other projects. Our problem is that whenever somebody opens a merge request for a project the default target branch is NOT the default branch of the…
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What is git's "filemode"?

What is git filemode? For me, it's in every repo's ./git/config file, near the top: [core] filemode = true What is it? What does it mean? Does it bear any relation to bare = false which I also don't really understand?
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Reloading configuration without restarting application using ConfigurationManager.RefreshSection

Has anyone got this working in a web application? No matter what I do it seems that my appSettings section (redirected from web.config using appSettings file=".\Site\site.config") does not get reloaded. Am I doomed to the case of having to just…
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Module SDK for Scala in IntelliJ Idea

How do you create Module SDK in Project Settings / Modules / Dependencies for Scala in IntelliJ Idea?
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MySQL too long varchar truncation/error setting

I have two MySQL instances. The 1st one truncates strings on insert when data is too long. The 2nd one raises an error: ERROR 1406 (22001): Data too long for column 'xxx' at row 1 I want the 2nd one to truncate the data as well. Is there any MySQL…
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