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Contentsshow This is an article about World of Warcraft functionality on Macs. Mac is an abbreviation for 'Macintosh', a brand of computers manufactured by Apple Inc. Mac OS is short for Macintosh Operating System; the first version of Mac OS X was the 10th major revision (hence the Roman. App launchers are primarily designed to launch apps, open files, run scripts. You set a key to do them, or, a hotkey that pops up a dialog, then type any letter to launch or search. Mac Quicksilver key trigger panel Quicksilver. Assign hotkey to.
Here's a guide of keyboard shortcut and automations tools for the Mac.
I created aDvorak Keyboard Layoutusing ResEdit on Mac back in 1992, and been using QuicKeys back then, it was the best automation tool. Also many app launchers and keyboard tools over the decades that came and went.On this page, i only list the latest ones that's still available.
Swap Modifiers
Karabiner-Elements
Karabiner-Elements (was known as KeyRemap4MacBook) lets you do advanced key remapping.
Download at[Karabiner-Elements At https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/ ]
Karabiner is very advanced. You can:
- Distinguish left Ctrl vs right Ctrl, remap Escape, remap Enter key.
- Set Space bar to be Ctrl or ⌘command when held down with another key, but as space itself when no other keys is pressed at the same time.
- Set keys to be device dependent. i.e. You have 2 keyboard. You want F2 to do different things.
Change Keyboard Shortcut in App
Mac OS X since 10.4 (year 2005) lets you change keyboard shortcut in a specific app.
Go to System Preferences, Keyboard and Mouse, Keyboard Shortcuts. Then click the + sign add button.
Note: This mechanism is not very flexible, because:
- Once you create a hotkey, the original key won't work anymore. (for example, if you set F3 to Copy, then ⌘command+c won't work.)
- It only lets you create a key for a action that has a menu. (for example, you cannot define a key to launch a app.)
- Numerical keypad keys cannot be used as trigger. (For example, you cannot make the number pad keys as personalized extra function keys.)
Suppose you have a gaming mouse,and you've set buttons to do copy and paste, across any computer running macOS.But you've also madeF2 as copy on your home Mac, so you can do them easily from keyboard too.Now, your mouse copy button don't work anymore, because⌘command+cno longer works.
Programable Keyboards
Get a programable keyboard with onboard memory. This is the best solution.Because you can plug the keyboard in any computer and it'll work with your settings.
See Programable Keyboards with Onboard Memory
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or, get a programable keypad.
App Launcher
App launchers are primarily designed to launch apps, open files, run scripts.You set a key to do them, or, a hotkey that pops up a dialog, then type any letter to launch or search.
Quicksilver. A app launcher. Assign hotkey to launch/switch/open apps or files. The hotkey can be single key (For example, F1) or combo-key (For example, ⌘command+F1).
Alfred Automation Tool
Hammerspoon Automation Tool
Using lua as scripting language.
Keyboard Maestro
Text Editor Key Behavior
aka
DefaultKeyBinding.dict
This is macOS's system-wide mechanism, for creating keybinding to control cursor movement or editing operations.
See: macOS: Create Custom Keyboard Layout
USB Overdrive
Keybinding Program
USB Overdrive is low-level USB tool. It lets you remap key or mouse buttons at USB level.
Excellent.
Ebsco app for mac. [USB Overdrive By Alessandro Levi Montalcini. At http://www.usboverdrive.com/USBOverdrive/News.html ]
View Keypress and Keycode
Install[Karabiner-Elements At https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/ ]
It'll also install a “Karabiner-EventViewer”. It's in your Applications folder.
Launch it, and press key or mouse button and it'll show the keycode.
ControllerMate
[ControllerMate At http://www.orderedbytes.com/controllermate/. Commercial. USB interface mapper. Seems to let you remap any USB input device's signals in flexible ways, including mouse.]
[review of ControllerMate by Jonny, 2017-02-27.]
I've been using ControllerMate for several years now and I have to saythat it is really an amazing and extremely powerful piece of software,and very flexible! The developer is also very quick to respond to questionson the forum and to come up with solutions which require coding (custompatches or add ons to download, or updates to download- depending on thesituation). There is a bit of a learning curve! And while the interfaceis logical and straightforward, getting used to the basic underlying logicbehind it all takes some time. But I can't even begin to explain all theunique and creative things you can do with it.
But I'll give a could examples.. I quite easily was able to switcharound and re-program lots keys on my keyboard (KM0Z1-5N6P and was ableto physically switch the keys around as well to match), I also did somemore complicated reprogramming using the Apps/Menu key almost like a newmodifier, mainly to launch apps but also to access the higher Fn-keys (adding10 to what's printed on the keyboard — only up to F20 though which he saysis the MacOS limit).
I also customized my trackball so that if I double-middle-click-hold the ball becomes an any direction scroll “ball”.
Another major product was creating a very unique, customized programmingfor a Logitech G13. I did use the native software for just a couple offunctions- basically for setting up the backlight colors for the various“pages” and configuring the applets. One cool thing I did that I use allthe time is to setup the joystick to switch “Spaces” (Mission Control),and to move windows between my multiple monitors, and to move windows between“Spaces” depending on which of the adjacent button(s) I'm holding. It'sSUPER easy and convenient! I also use those buttons (pretty much designedto be mouse buttons) as shift-life modifiers to access deeper levels ofthe closer buttons (in addition to and unique for the 3 ‘main’ pages whichare built in). In some cases I set them up to trigger regular hotkeys,sometimes I create custom hotkeys with the keyboard control panel (typicallyusing combos involving keys that aren't even on my keyboard or that arevery difficult to type), and sometimes I have them trigger AppleScriptsthat native commands or use GUI control but only if the app is alreadyrunning.
Honestly that barely even scratches the surface of all the things Iknow that ControllerMate can do which is only a fraction of what it canreally do!
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Thansk ! Very interesting article.
And you had me realize that Tiger brought back the Keyboard Desktop Accessory ! Gee !
And you had me realize that Tiger brought back the Keyboard Desktop Accessory ! Gee !
Excellent list of shortcuts. I had no idea there were so many, thanks.
And the incremental search capability is something I hoped could be made available in other apps besides Firefox. Now I have it all over, thanks again!
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And the incremental search capability is something I hoped could be made available in other apps besides Firefox. Now I have it all over, thanks again!
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how did you get M-u to work as a keyboard shortcut? any of the meta modifiers that generate diacritics keep failing here.
I have the same problem. Using Option as Meta, M-c works but M-u does not.
Also the C-x bindings don't work either. C-x C-s would be wonderful. :)
Also the C-x bindings don't work either. C-x C-s would be wonderful. :)
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darnit. Silly me. Apparently 'saveDocument:' doesn't work, but 'save:' does. I'll fix that. I thought I had tested it.
Yes. save: and saveAs: both work. Neither openDocument: nor open: seem to work though.
You're right. The diacretics make it fail. If you want to use ~u as a binding, you'll probably have to make a new keyboard layout, look at my full article. It links to an application called Ukelele which can do this.
Apparently the diacretic is getting caught at a lower level than the text system, so its shortcut won't work as a binding.
Apparently the diacretic is getting caught at a lower level than the text system, so its shortcut won't work as a binding.
Does anybody know if there has been any work to integrate vim commands? I've searched a couple times over the past year, and couldn't find anything. My productivity would skyrocket.
Best mac app to make photo collage. I can't find any either, but I'm sure that if you did a little work to create the keybinding for it (even if it only covered the most popular vim commands), you would make a lot of geeks happy..
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It's not very possible, because Vim is a modal editor, whereas NSTextView widgets are not. But if you want, you can try to approximate some vim bindings by using modifier keys and leaving it non-modal.
If you come up with some good vim approximations, let me know and I'll add them to my page.
If you come up with some good vim approximations, let me know and I'll add them to my page.
Vi keybindings exist for the bash shell, a user enter inserts mode by default unless they hit esc to go into command mode for whatever reason.
I don't see why a keybinding couldn't be designed that emulated this functionality.
I don't see why a keybinding couldn't be designed that emulated this functionality.
Because Cocoa text fields are not modal. The original poster already told you why it is not possible to do this within the context of the Cocoa classes without doing more programming than mere configuration.
while not a complete solution it is a working proof of concept, and still quite handy. i'm using it right now to write this message.
you can find viAllOver at http://www.dabble.org/viallover/
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it works in most text fields of most cocoa apps, including text fields in html pages with Safari. also works in TextEdit, Mail, and SubEthaEdit to name a few.
i am the author and am still looking for help. enjoy.
Are there some defaults around to modify other aspects of the Cocoa text system? In particular I'd like to turn off the 'smart' selection when deleting a highlighted word--so the space _isn't_ deleted along with the word.
Hmm. that's a weird one. It seems to depend on how you select the text. If you double click it, it will delete the space. If you drag to select, it won't. One way to avoid deleting the space is to modify the selection after double-clicking the word, and then it won't take the space out. You could conceivably make a binding to deal with this, but I'm not sure if there is any other way to change the behavior on a systemwide basis.
Haven't seen this here -- and just for completeness: the possible values for the key bindings can be found here:
/System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/Headers/NSResponder.h -- look under the section 'Standard bindable commands'.
/System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/Headers/NSResponder.h -- look under the section 'Standard bindable commands'.
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Actually, NSResponder is just the tip of the iceberg. I should have put a link in the hint, but I discuss it in the longer article. Here's a list of selectors that can be used: