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Ask HN: What are the useful, lesser known keyboard shortcuts?
I'm a Mac user, and suspect I only use six or seven keyboard shortcuts regularly (close window, quit, new, application switch, save, copy/paste, etc).
I suspect we find it difficult to learn TOO many (i.e. all) shortcuts, so which are the lesser-known ones (on whichever operating system) that you think people should know?
For example, I just learned the incredibly useful Apple-` shortcut to switch between Windows (not Apps), e.g. for working on multiple documents.
Any suggestions?
- cwb 16y agoWell, I'm not sure if these classify as lesser known, but Cocoa (that is most) text fields in Mac OS X support basic emacs bindings which I use all the time (native vim support would be even better of course, but hey..): http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/System%20Bindings.html http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/System%20Bindings.html (look at the ctrl (^) bindings).
- spxdcz 16y agoThanks, that's pretty cool. Yeah, in retrospect, I should have reworded the question "What are your favorite keyboard shortcuts?".
- buster 16y agoI don't have a Mac, but my colleagues use some keybinding to display a fullscreen list of available shortcuts.. Don't know which one, though
- spxdcz 16y agoArgh! That sounds particularly useful... Am trying to Google it, but haven't found it yet. Thanks for letting me know about its existence though!
- jluxenberg 16y agoWhen I started using a MacBook at work, I missed the Alt-Tab behavior of Windows and Linux. Alt-Tab switches to the last window that was active (and the one that was active before that, etc). There's a cheap utility for the MacOS that adds this feature. I have it bound to C-tab: http://manytricks.com/witch/ http://manytricks.com/witch/ You'll wonder how you lived without it!
- spxdcz 16y agoAwesome - thank you!
- seliopou 16y ago⌘` cycles through the windows of the current application. Never leave home without it.