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A bit shallow. For me the main problem was that Macs had a completely different shortcut layout than Windows and Linux. With 'KeyRemap4MacBook' I was able to g
by chappi42 12y ago
A bit shallow.
For me the main problem was that Macs had a completely different shortcut layout than Windows and Linux. With 'KeyRemap4MacBook' I was able to get consistency across the different platforms (not perfect but ~ok).
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoThe keyboard layout took some adjusting to. First that Command/Super is used in place of Control for most shortcuts, and second that on a Mac keyboard, Command/Super and Alt are swapped!
- chappi42 12y agoThe problem is if you switch between Mac and Linux computers (and sometimes Windows): it's highly annoying when the 'shortcut-muscle-memory' has to 'think'... With KeyRemap4MacBook I could 'linux-standardize' the Mac shortcuts. It's not perfect but good enough and vim, terminal, most ui behave ~equal.
- err4nt 12y ago> The problem is if you switch between Mac and Linux computers (and sometimes Windows): it's highly annoying when the 'shortcut-muscle-memory' has to 'think'... Or you just need to double the amount of shortcuts you know ;)
- chappi42 12y agoWhy downvote? (There are many pictures in the article and it is written with much detail, granted. But KeyRemap4MacBook should have been mentioned imho and the problem if you switch platforms and use platform-specific shortcuts is real, imho of course)