Keyboard Shortcuts on Mac OS X

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One of my complaints in my Thunderbird Notes was the inability to access certain commands from the keyboard. While downloading Thunderbird 1.0 from VersionTracker, I noticed this in the comments:

In OS X 10.3, go to your Keyboard/Mouse Preference Pane and define any key you want. If you don’t have 10.3, grab iKey and define any key you want. It seems redundant for any individual app to implement this feature now that it is built into the system and available to any app system wide

Huh? Really? (checking…) Wow, how about that! Sure enough, works like a charm.

Was I the only one that was completely unaware of this feature?

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Posted December 7th, 2004 @ 8:11 AM

3 Replies

  1. Scott Morrison adds this Comment:

    or you can use the keyconfig extension

    http://extensionroom[...]fo/keyconfig

    December 7th, 2004 at 8:51 am

  2. Sam DeVore adds this Comment:

    Was I the only one that was completely unaware of this feature?

    Umm yes, no really, I am amazed at the amount of un-documented goodies in os x.

    sam d

    December 7th, 2004 at 9:43 am

  3. Clint Ecker adds this Comment:

    Well I knew about it. I thought it was one of the biggest, un-publicized features of 10.3

    December 7th, 2004 at 9:41 pm

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