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@Tatsh's first solution worked for me. Probably because the file in question already existed, whereas it wouldn't with an absolutely fresh user account. I'd try `touch`ing that file first.

I can confirm that granting stuff Full Disk Access restores the correct behavior of `defaults`. But what a PITA!! The point of scripted setups is to *not* have to manually...

Right, not all apps work with the `-app` invocation. (And it has always been thus, it's not a Mojave regression.) If memory serves, only applications that are located in either...

> Are you implying there's a way to access of those preferences without manually authorizing the aforementioned apps? No. There used to not be a need for this, and now...

This is a good idea for anyone with a non-Retina screen. I've found that it helps with some but not all apps, and (in my experience) hurts none.

In any case, the setting is worth keeping, because AFAICT it _does_ help for when one uses the keyboard to go in and out of MC.

I seem to recall that if tempfiles are avoided, there is no way for vim to properly detect the the encoding of decrypted text during a read. Everything is fine...