When you're deep in a program, it's not uncommon to have a ton of keyboard shortcuts. More than just command-x can cover. More than adding in command-shift-x wi

When you're deep in a program, it's not uncommon to have a ton of keyboard shortcuts. More than just command-x can cover. More than adding in command-shift-x will cover. Maybe even more than three-modifier commands will cover. And hitting, say, command-alt-shift-d is a heck of a finger twister. So you start looking for more keys. I use Karabiner to turn capslock into command-alt-shift and fn-anything-but-a-function-key into command-shift. Or you make a keyboard with more keys - look up the "Space Cadet Keyboard" for a classic example. Or you get a couple of foot pedals. (Foot pedals have other uses, too - transcriptionists have pedals designed to act as transport controls for the playback of the audio they're typing, so they never have to take their hands off the keyboard. I'm told they help speed things up a lot.) You also don't necessarily have all those keyboard shortcuts memorized. But if you operate on a principle of "anything I need to do twice in ten minutes probably needs a shortcut so I can do it a ton faster next time I gotta do it a lot" it's easy to accumulate them, in any tool.