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Re: Command-Q

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Post by fourk »

neatoincognito wrote: post #26
fourk wrote: post #24

Saw this, figured that on the off-chance this saves me some aggravation that that aggravation would be worth $3.99. Saw the words "my store" and realized that in all likelihood I'd have to type out my entire credit card number, billing address, email address, potentially create a password, and came to the conclusion that that level of immediate aggravation would offset the potential of saving me future aggravation. W…

So you didn't want to fill out a form on the developer's website but you had plenty of time to come here and complain? Seriously, a minute of typing your info is too much trouble?

Yes, I had several minutes to give feedback of the sort that most people who had the same reaction would likely not provide. I'm a developer, I want to see other developers get paid for their work. I left this feedback here hoping that it would be beneficial to the developer (and perhaps other developers), not to bitch for the sake of bitching, as your reply presumes.

Re: Command-Q

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Post by neatoincognito »

xbryanx wrote: post #27
neatoincognito wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you didn't want to fill out a form on the developer's website but you had plenty of time to come here and complain? Seriously, a minute of typing your info is too much trouble?

He had a minute to come here and offer some astute advice that has the potential to improve the developer's bottom line.

Ok well I agree with that point. It just came off really whiny.

Re: Command-Q

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Post by kirillzubovsky »

natesm wrote: post #28

If you're looking for other nice and useful little Mac keyboard command utilities, I implemented shake to undo: http://www.natestedman.com/post/shake-to-undo-for-mac-os-x/

LOL! I didn't even bother to check if it's real or not, but just the though of shaking the life out of my laptop to make it undo sounds like fun! I'd never use it, but thinking of it makes me laugh. Thank you.

Re: Command-Q

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Post by sjs »

cpeterso wrote: post #16
shabble wrote: post #13

System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> App Shortcuts -> + -> select app, menu entry is usually "Quit ", and set it to cmd-ctrl-q, or something similar. (There's probably a more generic way by editing your ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict , but I'm not sure what the appropriate selector would be) Of course, these just change the binding, the 'hold to confirm' is quite a nice UI feature. Ed…

Since "Quit " is different for every application, my workaround is to rebind "Hide Others" (or "Show All") for all applications to CMD+Q. Every application has a "Hide Others" (or "Show All") and these menu items are pretty harmless.

I balked at it too, but then I really thought about it and I only care about this in a handful of apps so I just set each shortcut separately. I think I did iTerm2, Chrome, TextMate, and a few others.

It's interesting (for me) that others are doing this too though. I didn't do it because I lost something accidentally - really which apps don't ask you to save important things? - but because I wanted to embrace Lion's hidden Dock lights, which I enabled. If it shouldn't matter if an app is running or not then I shouldn't have to quit so I'm trying to break the habit.

Re: Command-Q

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Post by DarthShrine »

amikula wrote: post #9

"Ever hit ⌘Q and accidentally quit an application when you really meant to press ⌘W and close a window?" At first I was really puzzled when I read this sentence...Q and W are so far apart on the Dvorak keyboard! ;-)

But Q is right above left-⌘ (and W above right-⌘) -- convenient for accidental mashing.

Re: Command-Q

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Post by natesm »

kirillzubovsky wrote: post #33
natesm wrote: post #28

If you're looking for other nice and useful little Mac keyboard command utilities, I implemented shake to undo: http://www.natestedman.com/post/shake-to-undo-for-mac-os-x/

LOL! I didn't even bother to check if it's real or not, but just the though of shaking the life out of my laptop to make it undo sounds like fun! I'd never use it, but thinking of it makes me laugh. Thank you.

It's all real, the code is here: https://github.com/NateStedman/shake-to-undo/tree/master/Sha...

As you can see, it was all committed at once, which is the proper way to develop software.

Re: Command-Q

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Post by jbrennan »

fourk wrote: post #24

Saw this, figured that on the off-chance this saves me some aggravation that that aggravation would be worth $3.99. Saw the words "my store" and realized that in all likelihood I'd have to type out my entire credit card number, billing address, email address, potentially create a password, and came to the conclusion that that level of immediate aggravation would offset the potential of saving me future aggravation. W…

My guess is due to the nature of this app (catching keystrokes globally), this app wouldn't be allowed in the App Store.

Re: Command-Q

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Post by dasil003 »

anonymoushn wrote: post #23
Hrothgar15 wrote: post #12

Doesn't Auto Resume in Lion render this useless?

I'm not sure. I can't install Lion because it doesn't have Spaces.

Spaces was a failed experiment, at least in Apple's eyes. At this point it would be wise to either find a 3rd-party replacement or embrace Mission Control Spaces, otherwise you'll just be stuck in time with everything else slowly growing obsolete on you.
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