As a newbie to Mac, I expected much more advanced keyboard layout and shortcuts for Mac like Windows had. For example, when you are using any recent Windows OS, one doesn’t really need mouse to do most of the work.
But on the reverse side, Mac offers very poor keyboard layout on MacBook Pro along with it does not provide a way to bind any global shortcuts to launch direct applications…thats kind of annoy, unless you know how to script. But you can not expect everybody to know how to script. But the bare OS needs mouse initially to get started.
After searching and from people recommendations, I tried Spark – 3.0b2, and I found it as my life saver, so it makes it easy to setup shortcuts for any applications or binaries, at least it solved some of my major issues. But I still could not find a way to launch non-binary applications using global key shortcuts, for example, to launch applications or my home folder or utilities without going to Finder and using that shortcuts.
Anyway, I hope Mac will address this issue in coming version of OS with a nice key binding so that it will be more user friendly. These are the shortcuts I found it useful for everyday life (especially for people using PC and Mac):
- Command : Command key is also the Apple key
- Option : Option key is also the alt key
- Command-left : Move to the beginning of the line
- Command-Right : Move to the end of the line
- Command-Up : Go to beginning of the page or document
- Command-Down : Go to end of the page or document
- Option-Left : go backward to the beginning of the word
- Option-Right : go forward to the end of the word
- Option-Up : go to the beginning of previous paragraph
- Shift-Command-Left: Select text to the beginning of the line from current cursor
- Shift-Command-Right: Select text to the end of the line from current cursor
- Option-Delete : Delete to the beginning of the word
- Fn-Option-Delete : Delete to the end of the word
- Shift-Command-Left: Select text to the beginning of the line from current cursor
- Shift-Command-Right: Select text to the end of the line from current cursor
- Option-Down : go to the end of next paragraph
- Command-X : Cut the current selected text
- Command-C : Copy current selected text
- Command-P : Paste the text from the clipboard
- Delete : Similar to backspace in Windows
- Fn-Delete : Actual Delete
