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Mac keyboard shortcuts are not well thought out. It’s illogical. The Command key is used for shortcuts for the current active application, as well as controlli
by blackrock 6y ago
Mac keyboard shortcuts are not well thought out. It’s illogical.
The Command key is used for shortcuts for the current active application, as well as controlling the operating system functions itself.
There is no keyboard shortcut to activate the system menu bar on top. Insane. You have to use a mouse to click on the menu. Or you might be able to configure some weird shortcut to do it.
Instead, I think Microsoft won this one. Windows uses Control to activate the active window’s shortcuts. Control-S to save it. Control-O to open a file. Etc.
Alt key is used to control the active window itself. Alt-Space is used to open the active window’s menu, to move it around, resize, and close. Alt-F4 is used to close the window. But I think Alt-Escape would’ve been a better choice.
Then the Windows key is used to control operating system level functions. Win-R to activate the run command. Win key itself will pull up the operating system’s menu.
I think Win-Space should be used as a global run command bar.
If this project goes anywhere, then please follow the Windows model for keyboard shortcuts.
Also, use Control-Space to activate the active application’s command bar, so you can type in some manual commands to the application. Like Vim Or AutoCad does.