However in MacOS `command-shift-/` (⌘?) immediately shifts focuses to the help menu where you can begin typing to navigate directly to any command that appears in an application's menus, without needing to know where the command is hierarchically organized. It's very fast, and seems to work everywhere.
I have Karabiner-Elements configured to register ⌘? whenever I press and release the left control alone without using it as a modifier of any other key. The `to_if_alone` condition in Karabiner-Elements is one of my favorite ways to re-use all of the modifier keys to invoke special commands. It would be great if I could figure out how to do that in Windows.
The solution was in the switch to Ribbons: the underlines were replaced with keytips that are displayed when you hit Alt and as such aren’t required to be a character in the command’s name.
You can't do this on Mac? Why? I found this really jarring. I know on Mac you can press CTRL + F2 (add Fn key if you have one) to change the keyboard focus to the menus but it doesn't underline the letters that will work and you have to hit enter to open things so it's clunky.
The command palette is nice for discovery of lesser used commands and when there's lots of them but it's less predictable what keys you need to press to fuzzy search to the command you know is there and it doesn't teach your fingers the shortest key combo to trigger it.