Re:Ask HN: tips for working with Mac OS X without using the ...
by prawn on Friday August 27, 2010 @02:01PM
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Only had a MBP for a few days (first Mac), but isn't Safari tab-cycling also via Ctrl-Tab, and Ctrl-Shift-Tab to go in reverse? At least on the laptop keyboard, involving the square brackets would necessitate a fairly long stretch, or using both hands?
Being new to the Mac, I'd be happy to hear more shortcuts!
Re:Ask HN: tips for working with Mac OS X without using the ...
by coffeejunk on Saturday August 28, 2010 @02:40PM
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An interesting thing about osx shortcuts is that you can change almost all of them with system prefs -> keyboard -> keyboard shortcuts. (for programs individually and for the whole system)
Re:Ask HN: tips for working with Mac OS X without using the ...
by roryokane on Friday August 27, 2010 @05:11PM
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It seems you haven’t noticed that there is a Command key both to the left and to the right of the keyboard, so Command-[ and -] are pretty easy to do one-handed if you use the Command key on the right. I think Ctrl-Tab is just there for compatibility with Windows browsers that use that as their main tab-switching shortcut.
And after Cmd-Tab, Cmd-~ takes you backwards in the list of apps. So if you Cmd-Tab too many times, Cmd-~ takes you back instead of having to cycle through.
Likewise, in Safari Cmd-} (aka Cmd-Shift-]) and Cmd-{ take you forward and backward through the tabs. This also works in Terminal.
Cmd-L puts the focus on the location bar in Safari if you want to type in a URL (or tab over to the search)
Quicksilver is cool, but I just use Spotlight for launching apps. Cmd-Space turns on Spotlight.
If you use TextMate, I highly recommend the TextMate book from Prag Press.
Those are some of my favorites.