macos.md

macOS Shortcuts

macOS Shortcuts

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• Some are common & default in operating system.
• Some of the keys below can be modified in System Preference → Keyboard.

Common

Accessory

• ⌘ 凵 Spotlight
• ⌥ ⇧ ? Show Help Menu ^custom
• ⌥ ⌘ d Dock Hiding On/Off

Window

• ⌘ ` Switch windows of the current App
  • It's enabled via the App HyperSwitch
• ^ ⌘ f Toggle Full Screen
• ⌘ , Preferences
• ⌘ q Exit
• ⌘ w Close
• ⌘ h Hide
• ⌥ ⌘ h Hide All Apps But the Front-most
  • The manipulation Hide is much better than Minimize in macOS!
  • So I prefer Hide to Minimize.
• ⌘ m Minimize to Dock
• ⌥ ⌘ m Minimize All Windows of the Front-most App

Tab

• ⌘ r Refresh
• ⌘ t New Tab
• ⌘ 0~9 Select Tab
  • If there are more than 9 tabs, ⌘ 9 will select the last one.
• ^ ⇥ Next Tab
• ^ ⇧ ⇥ Prev Tab
• ⌘ ⇥ Next App
• ⇧ ⌘ ⇥ Prev App
• ⌘ [ Backward
• ⌘ ] Forward

Screenshot

• ⇧ ⌘ 3 Capture Desktop
• ⇧ ⌘ 4 Capture the selected area
  • The screenshots are saved in ~/Desktop

Built-in Emacs

• A few people know that it's supported in by default in macOS.
• They may work, if you append some modifier keys to them.
• Reference : Keyboard Shortcuts ( Emacs ) for Editing Text Fields in OS X

Emacs shortcuts:

• ^ f = ←
• ^ b = →
• ^ p = ↑
• ^ n = ↓
• ^ a = ⌘ ← Home
• ^ e = ⌘ → End
• ^ h = ⌫ Del
• ^ d = Fn ⌫ Forward Del
• ^ k Del to the End of the Line
• ^ t Exchange the Charactors before & after the cursor
• ^ o Insert a Blank Line '\n' after the cursor

They are also enabled by Zsh ( in .zshrc ) and Vim ( in .vimrc ) in iTerm 2 ( Terminal ).

Editor

Editor - File

• ⌘ n New
• ⌘ o Open
• ⌘ s Save
• ⌘ p Print
• ⇧ ⌘ S Save as

Editor - Edit

• ⌘ z Undo
• ⇧ ⌘ Z Redo
• ⌘ a Select All
• ⌘ c Copy
• ⌥ ⌘ c Copy Path
• ⌘ v Paste
• ⌥ ⌘ v Move ( after ⌘ c )
• ⌘ f Search
• ⌘ g Next Match
• ⇧ ⌘ G Prev Match
• ⌥ ← Prev Word
• ⌥ → Next Word
• After text selection, then input:
  • ⌘ b Bold
  • ⌘ u Underline
  • ⌘ i Italic
  • ⌘ + Bigger | Zoom In
  • ⌘ - Smaller | Zoom Out

Finder

Finder - File

• ⌘ ↓ Open
• ⌘ d Duplicate
• ⌘ e Eject Disk
• ⌘ l New Alias for a file
• ⌘ r to Origin File of Alias

Finder - Folder

• ⇧ ⌘ A Application
• ⇧ ⌘ D Desktop
• ⇧ ⌘ F All My Files
• ⇧ ⌘ G to Folder
• ⇧ ⌘ I iCloud
• ⇧ ⌘ O Documents
• ⇧ ⌘ R AirDrop
• ⌥ ⌘ l Downloads
• ⇧ ⌘ N New Folder
• ⌘ ↑ to Parent Dir
• ^ ⌘ ↑ Open Parent Dir in New Window
• ⇧ ⌘ C Computer
• ⇧ ⌘ H Home
• ⇧ ⌘ K Network
• ⇧ ⌘ U Utilities

Finder - View

• 凵 Quick Look
• ⌘ i Get Info
• ⇧ ⌘ . Show Hidden Files
• ⌘ 1 View the files in way of Icon
• ⌘ 2 View as a List
• ⌘ 3 View as columns
• ⌘ 4 View as a cover flow
• ⇧ ⌘ ⌫ Empty Trash
• ⌥ ⇧ ⌘ ⌫ Empty Trash without Confirmation
• ⇧ ⌘ P Show | Hide Preview
• ⌥ ⌘ p Show | Hide Path Bar
• ⌥ ⌘ s Show | Hide Sidebar
• ⌥ ⌘ t Show | Hide Tool Bar
• ⌘ / Show | Hide Status Bar