RadioAzureus, 2 months ago

@nixCraft ^s ^q ^shift v
And ^l ^r

#Keyboard #shortcuts #POSIX

mjgardner, 2 months ago

@nixCraft You have the #Cocoa text system’s key bindings to thank for so many #Emacs-compatible keyboard shortcuts working in #macOS text boxes and documents.

Here is #Apple's (dated) introduction: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/EventOverview/TextDefaultsBindings/TextDefaultsBindings.html

This other article delves into customizing those key bindings. It's also dated and has plenty of external link rot, but it’s still an excellent deep dive: https://github.com/jrus/cocoa-text-system/blob/master/cocoa-text.md

mykhaylo, 2 months ago

@mjgardner @nixCraft and these bindings will probably just stop working one day soon, when somebody at apple decides nobody needs them. Or just doesn’t include them into a new version of something.

mjgardner, 2 months ago

@mykhaylo Wow, you are just a ray of sunshine contributing your deep and informed insight, aren’t you?

The only thing worse than a blinkered fanboy is an equally narrow-minded anti-fan.

Go away and grow up.

/cc @nixCraft

mykhaylo, 2 months ago

@mjgardner @nixCraft you want a list of useful things apple killed over the years from somebody, who actually used macs since 2007? Probably not, you just want to be rude to strangers, don’t you?

mjgardner, 2 months ago

@mykhaylo No, I was trying to be helpful to strangers with my original reply to @nixCraft: https://social.sdf.org/@mjgardner/112209201600025284

You started the rudeness: https://fosstodon.org/@mykhaylo/112211917002167691

And I bought my first Mac in 1991, so don’t play the old-timer card with me, kid.

mykhaylo, 2 months ago

@mjgardner that explains the grumpiness of your original response. And you don’t think that Mac OS was gradually turning into Windows 98 over the last 10 years? I can barely work for half an hour without it wanting me to input a password for something. And it does it even during full-screen video playback. That would have been unthinkable before Jobs died, now it’s a norm.

mjgardner, 2 months ago

@mykhaylo Bye

cmmdmx, 2 months ago

@nixCraft mine is:

ctrl + win + alt + shift + l

(it opens linkedin in your browser, lol)

nazokiyoubinbou, 2 months ago

@nixCraft ctrl+alt+f1. Well, now ctrl+alt+f2.

mrcarrot, 2 months ago

@nixCraft A fairly uncommon one I find quite useful on occasion is Ctrl+S/Ctrl+Q. Being able to pause execution and then resume it later can be nice, especially if I need to save battery on my laptop.

hansvschoot, 2 months ago

@nixCraft ^r (bash history search) and ^d (exit session)

epistomai, 2 months ago

@nixCraft meta + k (konsole)

jenbanim, 2 months ago

@nixCraft ^U, love being able to quickly clear a line

monospace, 2 months ago

@nixCraft I only learned about Ctrl-P embarrassingly recently, and I love it!

hui, 2 months ago

@monospace @nixCraft
^L, ^R and ^A+A

alter_unicorn, 2 months ago

@nixCraft ^w