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Exactly. IIRC the command key and shortcuts were added on the Apple IIe. It's not a recent addition and not something that 'broke' anyone's muscle memory. If th
by lewispollard 13y ago
Exactly. IIRC the command key and shortcuts were added on the Apple IIe. It's not a recent addition and not something that 'broke' anyone's muscle memory. If they'd changed it to ctrl-c to cater for windows users, that would've broken historical Mac muscle memory.
- Nursie 13y agoThey could support it being an easy config option. Instead you can swap the keys (which breaks the key combos you might use in a VM, AFAICT) or you can mess around with KeyBindings, which only apply to some applications and not others. Not having an option for it at this point in time seems like little more than bloody mindedness. And regardless of any of this, it makes it harder to switch comfortably to Mac OS than pretty much any other OS, and I use a lot of different OS's to get my job done.
- lewispollard 13y agoI will concede that they could have made it reconfigurable (though you can indeed reconfigure using third party software like KeyRemap4MacBook). I was just giving a bit of historical context as to why this was the case - the IIe being a terminal-based machine. Apple are quite stubborn when it comes to accommodating people switching from other platforms, they tend to believe that their ways are the best and most usable, and that that alone will sell people on their platform. For me, that turned out to be true - having used Windows/Linux most of my life and making the full-time switch about 7 years ago, I almost always prefer the 'Apple way' these days.