In the absence of textual context its hard to find these drills helpful
Build muscle memory with your favorite editor
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Re: Build muscle memory with your favorite editor
#72Try tapping ABACABB (the Mortal Combat blood code) on the homepage for some fun. Nice easter egg :)
I feel I must ask: do you try this on every website you come across, or do you check the source on every website you come across? Either way: thanks :D
I actually work with Watson, the creator :) So I cheated a little.
Re: Build muscle memory with your favorite editor
#73No BBEdit. sigh
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Yes, but you have to enable it. It's not on by default. System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts And change the radio at the bottom to "All controls" under Full Keyboard Access.
To get to System Preferences, you can use CTRL-F2 to get to the Apple menu, CTRL-F3 to get to the Dock, or—if those shortcuts aren't set up (but I think that they are by default)—CMD-TAB to get to Finder, CMD-A to get to the Applications folder, and type a few letters to get to 'System Preferences.app'. :-) In the System Preferences window, you can start typing to select 'Keyboard' (keyboard focus is in the Spotlight…
Do you have the 'use F1, etc as function keys' unchecked? You'll need to use fn+control+F7 instead.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
To get to System Preferences, you can use CTRL-F2 to get to the Apple menu, CTRL-F3 to get to the Dock, or—if those shortcuts aren't set up (but I think that they are by default)—CMD-TAB to get to Finder, CMD-A to get to the Applications folder, and type a few letters to get to 'System Preferences.app'. :-) In the System Preferences window, you can start typing to select 'Keyboard' (keyboard focus is in the Spotlight…
Do you have the 'use F1, etc as function keys' unchecked? You'll need to use fn+control+F7 instead.
Nope—the machine is a laptop, but I'm using an external keyboard. For example, CTRL-F2 and CTRL-F3 both work fine.
Re: Build muscle memory with your favorite editor
#76This really didn't work for me. I found needing to parse the command ("Move backward a word") broke the memory that I have built up over 15 years of using Emacs. Instead of naturally moving backwards with a flick of the fingers, I had to concentrate on where each finger was and on the key I was pressing.
I think the goal of this is great, but as it stands, I'm not convinced it is going to help. Given it aborted my natural wiring, I doubt it will be wiring things up correctly for people who don't have the wiring (I could be VERY wrong here!).
Now, take @gruseom's idea of a visual "goal" that you are chasing, and I think this could be intensely valuable.
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#77I feel like this is the equivalent of obsessing too much about going to the gym. What about good old "on the job training"? The shortcuts you need, you will eventually internalize... instead of using up time on an exercise like this. I mean, it might give some benefit, but is it worth the mindlessness?
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, but you have to enable it. It's not on by default. System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts And change the radio at the bottom to "All controls" under Full Keyboard Access.
How do you keyboard navigate the TextEdit save dialog that comes up when you Cmd+w on a window when you don't want to save it? (Can you do better than press tab 5 times then space?)
Prior to Lion, Cmd+D means "don't save" in the dialog. With Lion, it's Cmd+Backspace.
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#79I found it confusing because it was using capital letters when shift wasn't implied. So I'd hit shift to capitalize like it displayed and it'd be wrong.
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#80Textmate: ⌘-[ for shifting left is "History > Back" in Safari and happens every time when it's the last shortcut in drill mode, which happened to me both times I tried.
Otherwise nice tool. I agree with the others about visual feedback. For Photoshop: Show the part of the palette you want instead of the name of the tool.