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

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Post by source99 » Thu, Aug 08, 2019, 5:12 AM UTC

The app witch lets you command-tab to switch apps but it lets you choose any open window of any app. So if you have 4 separate terminals and 3 chrome windows and multiple word documents open you can scroll to the exact one that you like

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

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Post by Oldham-Made » Thu, Aug 08, 2019, 7:39 AM UTC

Setting a text replacement (sys-prefs > keyboard > text) for "@@" to your email address. It's something we type multiple times a day, it's important to not have a typo, and @@ is something you rarely type in any context. This works with most apps, though some won't allow the text replacement to apply.

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

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Post by replugged » Fri, Aug 09, 2019, 3:05 PM UTC

AlchemistCamp wrote: post #126

sethammons wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note, cmd+e seems to be a safari thing; no such luck in chrome. I just cmd+f again.

> cmd+e seems to be a safari thing Works fine on Firefox. I'd say breaking it is a Chrome thing.

Actually, doesn't work for me in Firefox (68.0.1)

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

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Post by fnl » Fri, Aug 09, 2019, 3:38 PM UTC

sethammons wrote: post #108

psychometry wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cmd+shift+/ doesn't work in any app I'm running. Did you set that up yourself?

ditto. no worky in chrome, vs code. In slack, it brings up emoji (which is pretty neat!). In Notes, it centers text.

OP grandparent meant CMD-?, and ? happens to be SHIFT-/ on US and international keyboards.

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

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Post by TheRealWatson » Fri, Aug 09, 2019, 4:50 PM UTC

pier25 wrote: post #69

jonhess wrote: post #24

Command-e, put the selected text on the find clipboard. Then command-e, command-g (find next) will search for the selected text without sacrificing the copy/paste clipboard. Also, the find clipboard is shared between apps, so you can command-e in Safari, then command-g in Xcode.

Get Alfred. Clipboard history will change your life.

I've been using Copy'em Paste but Alfred looks like a beast.

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

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Post by pier25 » Fri, Aug 09, 2019, 11:06 PM UTC

TheRealWatson wrote: post #135

pier25 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Get Alfred. Clipboard history will change your life.

I've been using Copy'em Paste but Alfred looks like a beast.

It is a beast. If you are a dev you can extend it with scripts.

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

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Post by HerrBertling » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 6:40 AM UTC

Late to the party: CMD + L selects the URL of your tab. Comes in quite handy for sending URLs to people. CMD + L => CMD + C => done :)

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

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Post by rjb102 » Sun, Aug 11, 2019, 7:12 PM UTC

⌘⌃D -- looks up whatever word the cursor is hovering over or whatever text has been selected. Works system-wide except (irritatingly) in Microsoft Office.

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

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Post by cgxx » Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 5:22 PM UTC

zuccs wrote: post #22

Spectacle ( https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle#keyboard-shortcuts ) will change your life with better/faster window management. And Karabiner Elements ( https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements ) to remap keys to something more useful (who uses Caps Lock anymore?)

For window management, I'm a big fan of Slate (https://github.com/jigish/slate). So powerful and customizable. Works great with Mojave.

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

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Post by allenng » Mon, Aug 19, 2019, 7:56 PM UTC

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.

Always the first thing I do on any new system. Caps lock is the most useless key in the most prime real estate.