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I came to Mac in 2009 expecting great keyboard shortcuts because of everything I had heard. IMO they were fewer and less consistent than Windows and Linux shor

I came to Mac in 2009 expecting great keyboard shortcuts because of everything I had heard. IMO they were fewer and less consistent than Windows and Linux shortcuts at the time and a huge disappointment. (Example: no consistent way of selecting from cursor to end of line - there was no end button and which modifier to use varied with the application you used...! I have joked that the superior touchpad on the Mac is an adaptation to make it usable despite its inconsistent keyboard shorcut handling.)

gurkendoktor 10y ago
> no consistent way of selecting from cursor to end of line cmd+shift+right-arrow. I've once had to use an app in which it didn't work - the developer was using the shortcut for cycling between tabs. But it definitely works in all the apps I use right now. I still love the keyboard shortcuts on macOS. My favourite is alt+<any function key> to open the respective section in System Preferences. Hard to discover (like most shortcuts) but also really hard to forget about.
mikestew 10y ago
no consistent way of selecting from cursor to end of line Cmd-shift-right arrow. There are others, but that's the one I use and I don't recall it ever not working.
- reitanqild 10y ago
  You might very well be right now but IIRC between 2009 and 2012 this was hit-and-miss for me. I cannot remember which applications anymore but I was a Java programmer back then as well.
  - Lio 10y ago
    I've seen keyboard issues in JVM based IDEs before, specifically Webstorm. I've also seen some keyboard shortcuts not mapped properly in Firefox and Chrome. e.g. in the Chrome console the home and end keys don't work as expected under macOS I always assumed these were cross-platform library issues but I don't know for sure.
  - flukus 10y ago
    I'm guessing this is a casualty of non-native java based apps.
wodenokoto 10y ago
End key wouldn't even work in that scenario, as end on OS X is end of text.

gurkendoktor 10y ago

> no consistent way of selecting from cursor to end of line cmd+shift+right-arrow. I've once had to use an app in which it didn't work - the developer was using the shortcut for cycling between tabs. But it definitely works in all the apps I use right now. I still love the keyboard shortcuts on macOS. My favourite is alt+<any function key> to open the respective section in System Preferences. Hard to discover (like most shortcuts) but also really hard to forget about.

mikestew 10y ago

no consistent way of selecting from cursor to end of line Cmd-shift-right arrow. There are others, but that's the one I use and I don't recall it ever not working.

reitanqild 10y ago
You might very well be right now but IIRC between 2009 and 2012 this was hit-and-miss for me. I cannot remember which applications anymore but I was a Java programmer back then as well.
- Lio 10y ago
  I've seen keyboard issues in JVM based IDEs before, specifically Webstorm. I've also seen some keyboard shortcuts not mapped properly in Firefox and Chrome. e.g. in the Chrome console the home and end keys don't work as expected under macOS I always assumed these were cross-platform library issues but I don't know for sure.
- flukus 10y ago
  I'm guessing this is a casualty of non-native java based apps.

wodenokoto 10y ago

End key wouldn't even work in that scenario, as end on OS X is end of text.