Comments on: Musing on Mac Keyboards http://kagan.mactane.org/blog/2009/06/25/musing-on-mac-keyboards/ The prints of an Internet-enabled coyote. Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:12:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: coyote http://kagan.mactane.org/blog/2009/06/25/musing-on-mac-keyboards/comment-page-1/#comment-17 coyote Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:06:39 +0000 http://kai.mactane.org/blog/?p=76#comment-17 Oh, cool. Thank you! My last day on this contract is tomorrow, so I probably won't bother to remap anything this time around... but it's nice to know that I <em>could</em>. (Actually, global and per-app keystroke remappability is a big selling point with me. I will keep it in mind.) Oh, cool. Thank you! My last day on this contract is tomorrow, so I probably won’t bother to remap anything this time around… but it’s nice to know that I could.

(Actually, global and per-app keystroke remappability is a big selling point with me. I will keep it in mind.)

]]> By: Lunatic E'sex http://kagan.mactane.org/blog/2009/06/25/musing-on-mac-keyboards/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Lunatic E'sex Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:44:45 +0000 http://kai.mactane.org/blog/?p=76#comment-16 A nice feature in Mac OS X is that you can re-map any menu command to almost any key combination ("almost" because some keys are reserved--Tab is one of them, I'm afraid). Go to: System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse and click the Keyboard Shortcuts tab. (You might also discover some highly useful built-in keyboard shortcuts in the list, this way.) Click the "+" button and you'll get a dialog window where you can choose the app, menu item, and new keyboard combo you want. Anecdote: Back near the dawn of time (in GUI terms) I found it odd that Microsoft chose Control as their meta key, because I was used to using terminal software where Control-C, Control-S, Control-U, Control-Z, etc. were already used for control of data flow and processes. Plus I might actually want to ENTER control characters in an editor that supported their entry. Then there was the other extreme end of the spectrum where MIT Lisp machines had keyboards with Meta, Super, Hyper, Top, and Front modifier keys... A nice feature in Mac OS X is that you can re-map any menu command to almost any key combination (“almost” because some keys are reserved–Tab is one of them, I’m afraid).

Go to: System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse and click the Keyboard Shortcuts tab. (You might also discover some highly useful built-in keyboard shortcuts in the list, this way.) Click the “+” button and you’ll get a dialog window where you can choose the app, menu item, and new keyboard combo you want.

Anecdote: Back near the dawn of time (in GUI terms) I found it odd that Microsoft chose Control as their meta key, because I was used to using terminal software where Control-C, Control-S, Control-U, Control-Z, etc. were already used for control of data flow and processes. Plus I might actually want to ENTER control characters in an editor that supported their entry.

Then there was the other extreme end of the spectrum where MIT Lisp machines had keyboards with Meta, Super, Hyper, Top, and Front modifier keys…

]]> By: Kagan MacTane http://kagan.mactane.org/blog/2009/06/25/musing-on-mac-keyboards/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Kagan MacTane Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:19:12 +0000 http://kai.mactane.org/blog/?p=76#comment-46 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><a href="http://twitter.com/kmactane/status/2329903149">On Twitter</a>, <span class="topsy_twitter_username">Kagan MacTane</span> said: <span class="topsy_trackback_content">New blog post: Musing on Mac Keyboards http://bit.ly/1eR9C</span><br> <a href="http://topsy.com/tb/kai.mactane.org/blog/2009/06/25/musing-on-mac-keyboards/">Trackback powered by Topsy</a></span> On Twitter, Kagan MacTane said: New blog post: Musing on Mac Keyboards http://bit.ly/1eR9C
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