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Ask HN: The most useful Mac keyboard shortcuts?

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Re: Ask HN: The most useful Mac keyboard shortcuts?

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Post by gumby »

Cmd-space Type a few characters: start or switch to an app. Just hide the dock. Keeps your hands on keyboard and your eyes where you want them to be.

Control-cmd-F makes most apps full screen (or toggles back)

^k, ^y, etc...standard text widgets accept basic Emacs commands.

Re: Ask HN: The most useful Mac keyboard shortcuts?

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Post by jachee »

randallsquared wrote: post #6

Not a shortcut exactly, but get some app that adds shortcuts to snap the current window to various presets. I use Spectacle, but there are several.

I use Magnet, which comes with very nice KB shortcuts for window manipulation. It adds on the one feature from Windows that I missed on macOS.

Re: Ask HN: The most useful Mac keyboard shortcuts?

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Post by gumby »

gumby wrote: post #13

Cmd-space Type a few characters: start or switch to an app. Just hide the dock. Keeps your hands on keyboard and your eyes where you want them to be. Control-cmd-F makes most apps full screen (or toggles back) ^k, ^y, etc...standard text widgets accept basic Emacs commands.

Four finger swipe on keyboard slides between full screen apps (or spaces)

Re: Ask HN: The most useful Mac keyboard shortcuts?

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Post by paulcpederson »

gumby wrote: post #9
kevmoo1 wrote: post #5

Not a shortcut exactly, but remap caps lock to ctrl. So much easier in terminal and for using shortcuts like ctrl-A & ctrl-E for beginning and end of line, etc.

If you have a touchbar remap it to esc. I swapped my MBP for an air but kept the remapping.

This is brilliant
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