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<p dir="auto">On 24 Jan 2023, at 4:53, John Cooper wrote:</p>
</div><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: normal;"><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; color: #777777;"><p dir="auto">I also occasionally use a Mac app called "Prefs Editor" to browse and edit a .plist file. It's still available at <a href="http://apps.tempel.org/PrefsEditor/" style="color: #777777;">http://apps.tempel.org/PrefsEditor/</a>.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Using Prefs Editor is actually the only reliable way to edit plist contents without using the <code style="margin: 0 0; padding: 0 0.25em; border-radius: 3px; background-color: #F7F7F7;">defaults</code> terminal command. Although BBEdit can open plist files (including binary ones), this is primarily useful for inspecting them. As described on the Prefs Editor page, MacOS uses a caching system for plist values that makes editing the plist files directly unreliable:</p>
</div><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: normal;"><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; color: #777777;"><p dir="auto">Mac OS X 10.8 introduced a caching system for app preferences ("cfprefsd"). While this probably increases performances for apps, it makes it harder for developers to manipulate preference values quickly for testing, because making changes directly to the plist files in the ~/Library/Preferences folder does not work any more with editors such as "Property List Editor.app" and the similar editor in Xcode. As of now (Dec 14, 2013), the only way to edit such preferences is by using the "defaults" command, which is rather difficult to use once it comes to editing dict or array entries.</p>
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<p dir="auto">So if you want to play around with adjusting the counter colours, I highly recommend downloading and using Prefs Editor.</p>
<p dir="auto">--<br>
=> Jolin</p>
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