Re:macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)
by liamkearney on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:58AM
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Shortcat basically does this. It indexes a lot of native AX APIs and also menu items
The menu immediately closing was recently fixed[1] in Firefox 136. We'll look into the content of that menu not working correctly. Thanks.
I've never gotten this to work on an ISO-keyboard (chunky enter key).
It opens "Help" in every single app, even Apple's like Finder or Safari.
I've tried GB, German, US-International, and my default EurKey layout. None of them work. This shortcut always felt like an Alt+F4 prank to me.
Re:macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)
by madeofpalk on Friday February 28, 2025 @07:34AM
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The help menu is what searches all menu items.
Re:macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)
by notpushkin on Sunday March 02, 2025 @12:19AM
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Yeah. I think the idea was to help the user find out where a command is, so they can use menubar directly next time. Not the brightest idea IMO.
no, when hitting Command-? the help menu bar opens a search box that takes you directly to matching menu items -- like Spotlight for menu items. you can activate them directly from the search box. no learning involved
Kinda like command palette for every app, I like it. Would be even better if it preselected the matching option.
Unfortunately, this is broken in Firefox – they’ve bound ⌘ ? to their help page, and it opens then immediately closes the Help menu. You can rebind it to something else (e.g. ⌥ ⇧ ⌘ /) in System Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts → App Shortcuts → Firefox, menu title: Get Help.
One other problem is, it doesn’t always find the command I’m looking for. E.g. when I typed “dev”, it didn’t show “Web Developer Tools” at first. I then checked Tools menu (it was there), then tried typing it in the Help menu again, and sure enough, it found it this time.