I use k instead of the space bar for a long time.
Same. I can't remember why exactly I switched, but I recall space bar being more of a gamble whether I would pause/unpause or scroll down the screen. K seemed to work better.
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#22It works in the search bar
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#24It works.
Ah!
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There is indeed more. And there is one hotkey to rule them all, pressing "?" which shows all hotkeys. "?" is one hotkey I keep pressing in a lot of random contexts, just to see what it does. In many applications it shows all the hotkeys, or if you add some modifier like shift or alt.
Apparently ? is the new F1
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I imagine it has something to do with the keyboard shortcuts for video player controls, which I'm going to list because I think they're neat and was very excited when I discovered them. space - play/pause j - skip back k - play/pause l - skip forward 0-9 - skip to the n/10th point of the video m - mute f - fullscreen t - "theater mode" which is the bigger-but-not-full-screen video size I'm sure there are others, but…
There is indeed more. And there is one hotkey to rule them all, pressing "?" which shows all hotkeys. "?" is one hotkey I keep pressing in a lot of random contexts, just to see what it does. In many applications it shows all the hotkeys, or if you add some modifier like shift or alt.
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#30Safari on Mac.