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It really surprised and disappointed me recently that native macOS apps have the same problem outlined here. For example, the standard system-wide ‘back’ shortc
by gmac 6y ago
It really surprised and disappointed me recently that native macOS apps have the same problem outlined here. For example, the standard system-wide ‘back’ shortcut (e.g. in Safari, Finder, Preview) is Cmd+[, but this is inoperable in many keyboard layouts that don’t have any key that produces [ without modifiers.
(For context: I was writing a simple mouse gestures utility that sends that keyboard shortcut to accomplish backward navigation for an appropriate gesture, but discovered this to be unreliable across keyboard layouts).
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- lxgr 6y agoIt‘s even worse on ISO keyboards (the ones with the large return key). There‘s a physically different key arrangement on these, so even when switching to the US lay-out, some important system-wide shortcuts are still impossible to type (most notably the one for „switch to different window“).
- jurip 6y agoYeah Apple doesn't seem to even try to cater to non-US users with their shortcuts. That's the first I've heard of a system-wide back shortcut. You can't type that in my layout. The default switch between windows of a single app shortcut is also impossible, IIRC. One that I always have to reconfigure when I switch editors is the line comment shortcut which defaults usually to something like cmd-/. I wonder if it's any better on iOS or are you just completely out of luck there when you can't reconfigure the shortcuts?
- Pinus 6y agoOne favourite of mine in this genre is applications who use both command-[ and option-command-[. On a Swedish mac keyboard, [ is on option-8, so it is impossible to type just command-[ without the option key...