You’re probably a keyboard jockey. You laugh mightily at all those fools (fools!) who reach for the mouse whenever they need to perform only the most basic functions like command-a, command-s, or the almighty command-z. You probably figured out years ago that you could navigate the Finder without using the mouse, and lo, were you a genius.
Fortunately for us keyboarderati, there’s always new stuff to learn. Lifehacker points out a few “hitherto unknown-to-me” shortcuts that I likewise was unaware of. For any emacs geniuses out there, you may already know about these.
* Ctrl+A: Beginning of line (like Home) * Ctrl+B: Backward one character (like hitting the left arrow) * Ctrl+D: Forward delete (like the Forward Delete button on Macs) * Ctrl+E: End of line (like End) * Ctrl+F: Forward one character (like hitting the right arrow) * Ctrl+H: I’m not entirely sure on this one, but it looks like it just does a right-to-left delete (like the regular delete key on Macs). * Ctrl+K: Kill/remove text between cursor and the end of the line. * Ctrl+N: Next line (like down arrow) * Ctrl+P: Previous line (like up arrow) * Ctrl+U: Remove/delete current line * Ctrl+V: Page down
I’d like to add just one more, which is the € (euro) sign, which can be printed by holding option-shift-2. Now that I live (temporarily in France), this has come in handy quite a bit.
Any other obscure ones? Add ‘em in the comments.
crtl+T
Holy crap that's awesome! Including ctrl+T! I trasnpose all the time. =) This is just another reason I tend to be fanatical about Macs. Often there are some obscure shortcuts that make the day go by a little better. It's not that they have to be there-it's just a better experience because the are there!
Option 8 makes a bullet point. Something I've found hard to do on a PC.
Option e followed by another press of the letter e makes a french accent over the e.
Option f makes a curly 'f' symbol, I often use in naming folders.
If you have ctrl-k without crtl-y, you only have half the fun. Ctrl-k doesn't just delete the text from the cursor to the end of the line. It puts that text onto a (separate from the standard) clipboard. You can paste that text with ctrl-y. This is entirely separate from ordinary copy and paste operations using cmd-c and cmd-v.
Good times.
I bought a Mac so I didn't have to do that arthritic spread over a keyboard.
I shudder to think.