You are one of the best creators of tutorials on KZread. You hardly ever edit your videos...You flow through what you teach because you have such a thorough knowledge of whatever you present (I am a teacher so I know how to spot a great teacher when I see one...YOu are one of those great teachers). Thank you for providing such useful knowledge. Keep up the great work.

@macmost

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

Brilliant, Gary. Thank you. I love your videos which get “under the hood” of the Mac operating system. Now I just need to add the shortcut for “MakeCupOfCoffee”!! 😂😂

Wow! You are a Mac superpower! Thanks a million Gary.

Now THIS is the content I come here for! 👏 👏 👏 Thanks Gary! You just opened up a whole new level for my UX project. 😃

Wow! I'm completely out of breath! Very fascinating, but I'm trying to simplify my life. I'll remember that the video is always there when the moment comes for such clever moves. Thank you Gary!

Thank you Gary. You are amazing.

Great stuff Gary. I will definitely be keeping this in mind as I run across repetitive things I do with text/typing. I have learned a lot from your video tutorials. Best I've found for some awesome creative ideas to unleash the power of the Mac. Thank you.

Very informative, thank you.

A very useful and informative video tutorial today. Thanks for showing us how. Thank you, Gary! 👏👍🏻❤️

Mind. Blown. This is awesome!

Thank you Gary, this is really interesting. KeyBindings for Signature and contact details I use the most were the things that came up to my mind when I finished watching this video.

You share the best stuff. Thanks!

This is absolutely BRILLANT - Thank you So Much !!! ... Yours is the best channel on YT ...

12 years using a mac and I didn't know this haha thanks!

OMG, Gary, You are awesome! You read my mind. 😱 I was looking for keybindings today and when I saw KZread thumbnail I thought it is only an algorithm, but it is new video. Amazing! 🤩 So there is no accident. Your videos are truly the best macOS tutorials in the whole universe. Thanks a lot!! 😎

This is going to save me so much time, great video Gary!

very helpful. thankyou so much

I have never seen this before, very useful. Great work Gary!

This is just awesome!

Wow! Thanks Gary!

ctrl+L. never knew that. great help!

A lot of Vim inspiration here! Thanks Gary! I didn't know about this keybinding configuration possibility… Very good!!! :)

Damn, Gary. You’re gonna make me a programmer yet!

Thank you didn't have the faintest idea what mac can do!!!! This is next level

Very cool.

Thanks bunches

Gary you are amazing again. Is there a way to save the “Setmark” value to variable? So I could save different mark areas by pressing different shortcuts to navigate in document.

This video really helped me out ... by coincidence. Let me tell you a little story. I bought a fully programable keyboard (ErgoDox EZ from ZSA). One of several techniques I used in configuring the layout of the keys is called "home-row mods"; placing the modifier keys on the home row for each hand so tapping one of them produces the character but holding it becomes holding a modifier. More specifically, tap/hold looks like this: 'A'/shift, 'S'/control, 'D'/option, 'F'/command, 'J'/command, 'K'/option, 'L'/control, [semicolon]/shift. Works great and it was easy to adapt to. This keeps my hand centered on the keyboard for all chords (multi-key presses to produce key combos or keyboard shortcuts) and progressions (multiple key strokes to produce one thing like [option] + 'N', 'N' to produce 'ñ'). It saves time since I no longer have to move my hands around the keyboard when using modifier keys (which I started using years ago to save lots of time moving my hand back and forth between the keyboard and mouse a thousand times a day). I use well over a hundred chords including many custom ones and only counting the Mac chords, not the Windows chords I use, as well. That's also after changing some app specific ones so they match. For example, I changed the chords used in Safari, Chrome, VSCode, Finder, etc. to cycle through tabs they all use the same two (one for each direction) which reduces the number I have to remember. Anything I can do to reduce time away from the home row can make a huge difference over a twelve- to fifteen-hour day on my Mac, plus no more pinky stretching to use shift which reduces RSI pressures. *But*, home-row mods technique breaks a common, natural typing technique called "rolling." This is when the new letter is triggered before the previous letter is released. Basically, the faster you type, the more likely it is any transition from one key to the next in a word will result in rolling. This is nothing new. For anyone who has used a hammer-style typewriter knows about jamming keys. That's often caused by rolling. Computers handle this very well, usually. In the case of home-row mods, however, if you type, the word "same," for example, and you roll from the 's' to the 'a', you get [control] + A instead; and the beginning of the paragraph now has "me". Since I am a touch typist, I catch it right away, but if you aren't better get that skill before trying this out for yourself. If I hadn't watched *THIS* video just weeks before getting the keyboard I might have thought there was something wrong with it and try to return it. I love this keyboard including how easy it is to set up really powerful techniques; of which home-row mods is only one. ZSA makes it super simple to set up multi-function keys using "tap dancing" and layering. Other boards require you to learn something called QMK to enable tap dancing options like tap/hold so I likely would not have a programmable keyboard. Tap dancing is the only thing that makes this keyboard even feasible for me and I don't have time to learn QMK much less write out the code for hundreds of keystrokes. Thanks, Gary for saving my split, mechanical, programmable keyboard future. You helped me save time, be ever-more productive, and cure my RSI!

Super genius Gary, thank you so much they help tremendously. I've watched a lot of your other videos too! I have one question, how can I tweak one of the lines to capitalise only the first word of a paragraph?

@macmost

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure what you mean. So capitalize the first word of the first sentence of a paragraph but not the first word of the second sentence of a paragraph? No way to do that. You just need to capitalize manually as normal.

Fun! I had heard the Mac included many of the default Emacs keybindings (I believe that's what you demonstrated at the beginning). I don't use Emacs so I never used them. That .dict file format looks different from anything I have seen. It certainly isn't EmacsLisp. I would like to think Apple would have clear documentation about how to create a keybindings file, but Apple documentation has always blown hot and cold. Extensively detailed in some cases, utterly missing in others. Thanks so much for the links!

This is some power user sh*t!!!! Thank u!

Fabulous, thank you Gary. Would this also work for Title Case (Proper Case/ Capitalise Words)?

@macmost

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. There's one for that.

@urswolfensberger934

2 жыл бұрын

@@macmost Thanks, and what is that function called? I tried a few things without any luck.

Thanks Gary, is it possible to pass selected text to external app, process it and replace it with selection. If you want to know the use case, I’m using English and Arabic keyboard layouts and some times I find myself typed several words before switching the keyboard layout, so I have to delete those words and type them again with correct layout. I was wondering if it’s possible to select and pass the text to an app which maps each character to corresponding character to the other layout and return it for replacement.

@macmost

2 жыл бұрын

I can't think of any easy way to do that.

Question: Do KeyBindings work on iPad Air 5 with the Magic Keyboard? If so, how could I set them up?

@macmost

Жыл бұрын

No. This is for Mac.

Gary, how do I find out what commands I can use in the keybindings?

@macmost

Жыл бұрын

Look at some of the links I provide.

Wow!!

Hi Gary, Great video! The only thing that holds me back is not knowing what is already mapped (by default and by me) 🤯 I don't want to create confusion or bad habits. Is there a way of auditing all the keybindings operating on a Mac ❓❓❓

@macmost

2 жыл бұрын

Chances are you weren't using any key bindings before (did you use Control+b? Control+t?) so it is just a matter of avoiding regular keyboard shortcuts. No way to see a list if them all as it varies from app to app.

thanks - now my brain hurts LOL

It would work on Microsoft Word? Or just on Apple's native apps?

is there a way to create a keyboard shortcut to change the keyboard backlight brightness?

@macmost

8 ай бұрын

Only if you have an older Mac with those on the keyboard (F5/6 I think). Otherwise, use System Settings or Control Center.

Can you use the function keys?

@macmost

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, you should be able to. Depends on your System Preference setting for the fn key though.

Hi Gary! Could this not work with Big Sur? I have check folder name and file name. Quit and reopen TextEdit but this not work for me! Can you help me? Thanks

@macmost

2 жыл бұрын

The video is IN Big Sur. Just start over and carefully follow each step.

@RobyRedTube

2 жыл бұрын

@@macmost I found the problem! The character ^ in the Italian keyboard is incorrect. I solved with a copy / paste of character from a keybinding found on the internet. Thank's for your help and your very very best video!

This has April fools day prank written all over it to me. I can imagine setting a keyboard bindings on my someones computer that says something like “Hi (name)!“ or “help! I’m trapped!” or something spooky….

@macmost

2 жыл бұрын

Yep. It is right up there with putting tape over the sensor in a mouse or switching the keyboard type.

Everyone with an extended keyboard should change the Home key to go to beginning of line and the End key to go to end of line. { "\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLine:"; "\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLine:"; "$\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:"; "$\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:"; }

Is useful in Excel since Excel does not offer a way to change the text to uppercase.

Most of these keybindings seem to be the same as the emacs editor in the unix world 🤔

Past message: For me it's doesn't work, I did correct naming, placed it in the Keybindings folder in a DefultKeyBinds.dict file and even when I copied from your own screen a few commands they didn't work. Send help :C (IT ACTUALLY WORKED) EDIT: I ACTUALLY DID IT AND IT WORKED

Like you did with "^t" followed by another character, can you do the same with "#1" followed by another character?

@macmost

2 жыл бұрын

Should be able to. Try it.

will it work in MS Word?

@macmost

Жыл бұрын

They are system-level, so they should work for anything. But whether what you are mapping things to results in an action in Word is up to you.

@libinthomas1288

Жыл бұрын

@@macmost thanks

Is there a shortcut to delete a conversation on Messages Mac Os?

@macmost

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure how short you want it. You Control+click on a conversation and select Delete,

@DirectorWD40

2 жыл бұрын

@@macmost Thanks. I created one having the conversation selected..Command+Left Arrow. But then you'l;l have to click on the confirm dialog either Cancel or Delete.

@macmost

2 жыл бұрын

@@DirectorWD40 No need to click if you don't want. Tab to go from Cancel to Delete. Then Space to use that button.

That's a lot more useful than that lame Automator program ever hoped to be.

This doesn't work in Microsoft products, which is a great shame.

Whoa! A programmer's paradise! This should come with a warning: For Geeks Only!

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