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Key Bindings with Mac OS X
With all of Mac OS X’s spit and polish, it is easy to forget there is a Unix computer under there. Reader Francois recently turned me on this excellent collection of Mac OS X key bindings. Take a long look. I’m sure you’ll find a few that can help you out, today. For instance, I had no idea you could tab inside a form box with Option + Tab.
If that isn’t enough, roll your own bindings with KeyBindingsEditor, which I haven’t had time to test but looks interesting.
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Reader Comments (2)
The author of that page, Jacob Rus, also wrote an excellent article/tutorial on Customizing the Cocoa Text System in addition to the list of default bindings. (Disclaimer: he's a friend, but I'm pointing out the article since it's worth a read.)
It's probably easier to skip KeyBindingsEditor and just edit those files by hand. My DefaultKeyBinding.dict has lots of macros and stuff, it could be used as a starting point.
And
"insertText:", "\t"seems to work more often than ⌥⇥ (insertTabIgnoringFieldEditor:).