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Yes it is, more or less. This functionality is badly broken (by default) for international users. As the poster above you said, the ` key changes place in diff
by kilburn 13y ago
Yes it is, more or less. This functionality is badly broken (by default) for international users. As the poster above you said, the ` key changes place in different keyboard layouts.
I'm using a ISO/Spanish layout and the day I discovered that Cmd+` hotkey I just couldn't figure out why the hell that key would be mapped to "switch between windows of the same app". After googling for a while, I found out what the ANSI/US keyboard layout is, and only then the hotkey made sense. Just for reference the backtick key is right next to the "P" letter in the ISO/ES layout.
Now the first thing I do when sitting in front of an OSX computer is to remap that hotkey to Cmd+º, which is the same physical key in ISO/ES than ` in ANSI/US. I seriously doubt that most international OSX users know about this hotkey though. I have a few (non-techie) friends using OSX now, and none of them knew about it...
- e12e 13y agoWow, I would've thought at least OS X mapped that to "key over tab" rather than literally alt-`... (Which is the key left of backspace with the shift modifier on a Norwegian layout...). Incidentally, I've several times considered modifying that when writing shell scripts ... on the other hand, it does make one try to use the $(...) over `...` as much as possible, which when it makes sense, makes for easier/safer handling of backspaces etc ... so not every inconvenience is a disadvantage...