{"id":1569,"date":"2024-02-06T21:51:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T04:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2024-02-06T21:51:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T04:51:11","slug":"macos-and-keyboard-shortcuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/macos-and-keyboard-shortcuts\/","title":{"rendered":"MacOS and keyboard shortcuts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last August, I gave up my four-year-old Linux T590 Thinkpad for a MacBook Pro. They&#8217;re different, and in some aspects, it&#8217;s been a difficult journey because MacOS is not Linux. In other ways (apps, audio, Bluetooth, etc.), MacOS has been fantastic.<br><br>The hardest thing to get used to is the keyboard shortcuts. I use keyboard shortcuts extensively, and they&#8217;re quite similar between Windows and Gnome Desktop. Not so with MacOS. MacOS is not Gnome, and it&#8217;s not Windows either.<br><br>Shortcuts that I still get wrong, six months later, and so I&#8217;m still learning.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> I hit CMD-Home, expecting to go to the top of the web browser window, or the top of a document.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I hit CMD-up-arrow to go to the beginning of the line, and does something else. On Windows\/Gnome, CTRL-up-arrow does what I expect. On Mac, it&#8217;s CONTROL-A, and CONTROL-E to move to the end of the line, just like with zsh and bash (by default), so I can accept that.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>F2 in the Finder doesn&#8217;t rename files. Apparently, the Return key does this instead. I can get used to that.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In PyCharm, I still don&#8217;t know how to set and jump to bookmarks.<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Mac doesn&#8217;t have window-snapping like Gnome or Windows, so I use Rectangle to remedy that. Although the keyboard shortcuts are different, I&#8217;ve gotten used to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that I use Mac during the workday, I&#8217;m used to starting apps with COMMAND-space. When I use our at-home Windows computer or my Linux computer, it takes me a few seconds to adjust to the different shortcut keys &#8212; just hit the windows key, no space bar needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The differences under-the-hood are far more striking than the keyboard-shortcut differences, but that&#8217;s a topic for another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last August, I gave up my four-year-old Linux T590 Thinkpad for a MacBook Pro. They&#8217;re different, and in some aspects, it&#8217;s been a difficult journey because MacOS is not Linux. In other ways (apps, audio, Bluetooth, etc.), MacOS has been fantastic. The hardest thing to get used to is the keyboard shortcuts. I use keyboard &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/macos-and-keyboard-shortcuts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MacOS and keyboard shortcuts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[45,26],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-mac","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}