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Cmd+Q is awful IMO. It's too easy to hit accidentally trying to do Cmd+Tab.

by jrs95 9y ago

petercooper 9y ago
Or Cmd+W. The amount of times I've gone to close a tab and ended up quitting :-D
- zymhan 9y ago
  I do this at least once a week. So annoying.
busterarm 9y ago
Every time people tell me they like MacOS shortcuts I look at them with a bit of stink eye. They're about as anti-muscle memory and as "shortcuts that shouldn't be next to each other" as key combinations can get. Great, they're very easy to learn, but not so great to retain and use. I'm going to be spending the rest of my career looking up on SO the bottom 75% of the shortcuts I need to use. Thanks guys. Thanks Steve.
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- TheAceOfHearts 9y ago
  I disagree that they're difficult to retain and use. I've learned how to use both sets of shortcuts, as I sometimes move between macOS, Linux (Ubuntu), and Windows. Regardless, macOS shortcuts are my favorite. In my experience, shortcuts are more consistent on macOS than on Linux and Windows. When I first tried macOS I thought its shortcuts were the worst thing ever. But after giving it a genuine try for a few weeks, I immediately fell in love with em. You can find the macOS shortcuts on the Mac keyboard shortcuts [0] support page. If you're interested in more details, you can learn about the guiding principles by reading the Human Interface Guidelines Keyboard article [1]. Even if you disagree with some of their design decisions, I'd still highly recommend reading through their Human Interface Guidelines articles. It's an amazing resource. [0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 [1] https://developer.apple.com/macos/human-interface-guidelines/user-interaction/keyboard/ https://developer.apple.com/macos/human-interface-guidelines...
TheAceOfHearts 9y ago
This isn't usually a problem for me. However, one way in which macOS combats this is by encouraging applications to preserve their state between sessions. That means even if you were to accidentally exit, you can just re-open it without problems. This also helps protect you in the case of a system crash (incredibly rare, in my experience) or accidental power loss.

Cmd+Q is awful IMO. It's too easy to hit accidentally trying to do Cmd+Tab.

by jrs95 9y ago

Cmd+Q is awful IMO. It's too easy to hit accidentally trying to do Cmd+Tab.

petercooper 9y ago

Or Cmd+W. The amount of times I've gone to close a tab and ended up quitting :-D

zymhan 9y ago
I do this at least once a week. So annoying.

busterarm 9y ago

Every time people tell me they like MacOS shortcuts I look at them with a bit of stink eye. They're about as anti-muscle memory and as "shortcuts that shouldn't be next to each other" as key combinations can get. Great, they're very easy to learn, but not so great to retain and use. I'm going to be spending the rest of my career looking up on SO the bottom 75% of the shortcuts I need to use. Thanks guys. Thanks Steve.

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TheAceOfHearts 9y ago
I disagree that they're difficult to retain and use. I've learned how to use both sets of shortcuts, as I sometimes move between macOS, Linux (Ubuntu), and Windows. Regardless, macOS shortcuts are my favorite. In my experience, shortcuts are more consistent on macOS than on Linux and Windows. When I first tried macOS I thought its shortcuts were the worst thing ever. But after giving it a genuine try for a few weeks, I immediately fell in love with em. You can find the macOS shortcuts on the Mac keyboard shortcuts [0] support page. If you're interested in more details, you can learn about the guiding principles by reading the Human Interface Guidelines Keyboard article [1]. Even if you disagree with some of their design decisions, I'd still highly recommend reading through their Human Interface Guidelines articles. It's an amazing resource. [0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 [1] https://developer.apple.com/macos/human-interface-guidelines/user-interaction/keyboard/ https://developer.apple.com/macos/human-interface-guidelines...

TheAceOfHearts 9y ago

This isn't usually a problem for me. However, one way in which macOS combats this is by encouraging applications to preserve their state between sessions. That means even if you were to accidentally exit, you can just re-open it without problems. This also helps protect you in the case of a system crash (incredibly rare, in my experience) or accidental power loss.