This is a different thing from Keyboard Mapping but barely documented! You should be able to correct the setting using the Change Keyboard Type button in System Preferences > Keyboard, but often that button just doesn’t appear. However, there seems to be a bug in macOS where this setting is lost and it defaults to ANSI. I thought I had it fixed when I set up my keyboard, as when connecting a new keyboard, macOS often asks if it is ANSI (US), ISO (British) or Japanese or detects it correctly. If you switch Option to Command, and Command to Option, this brings the Command key next to the keyboard, and treats the Windows key as Option. In System Preferences > Keyboard, on the Keyboard tab, click the Modifier Keys button. The fix for this is to switch Modifier keys. Here are all my Shortcuts:ĭon’t set ^V to Paste and Match Style if you want to use this shortcut to paste into Microsoft apps like Office or Code – it won’t recognise the command. I did this for Copy, Cut, Select All, Paste, Undo and set them all to use Ctrl instead of ⌘. Type the command in Menu Title, and type the desired Keyboard shortcut. Click on the button to create a new one. You can add custom shortcuts here for specific apps or everything. In System Preferences > Keyboard switch to the Shortcuts tab and select App shortcuts on the left. The best one I found is British – PC, but more on this later. I did need to add a new Keyboard mapping under System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources. Just switching to a Windows keyboard fixed these. Here’s what I did to get rid of the annoyances. For some reason macOS keeps treating the K810 as ANSI mapped rather than ISO, which swaps the and \ keys. ` and \Īnother programming key is the and \. When you use a Windows keyboard on a Mac the Alt and key is treated as Option, not Command, so the same physical movements don’t do the same thing. I had also started using Executor at work and set Alt Space to bring it up. I really like Spotlight, and did get used to hitting ⌘ Space and typing instead of using the dock. But there were still a few annoyances that I fixed: Spotlight Pairing this keyboard with my Mac meant I could touch type again. I went for a Logitech K810, which is a nice Bluetooth keyboard, unfortunately no longer available. Ultimately this slowed me down noticeably, and I opted to get myself a Windows keyboard to replace the Apple Magic Keyboard. Since the ⌘ key is in a different position on the keyboard to ^, touch typing Copy and Paste when switching gets difficult. Mac uses the Command key (⌘) instead if CTRL for many shortcuts, while Windows uses Ctrl (^). As I started to do more programming, I started needing # more often, and having to use a modifier key slowed me down. It’s located on the same key as the £ sign, but you have to press Option to get it. The hash key (or “pound” if you are American) is not directly typed on a British Mac keyboard. Given that we all type the key a lot these days when addressing email, this became frustrating. The first thing I noticed was that British Mac keyboards have the and the ” switched. You can’t drop ingrained habits if you have to do them every day! Annoyances #, and “ Particularly since my work computer was still a PC running Windows. Typing proved to be the biggest challenge. I also wanted to learn something new so I decided to go for it and get my head around OS X (now macOS). My whole academic and working life I was typing the Windows way, and certain keypresses just became second nature – most frequently CTRL C and CTRL V.Īfter 15 years of this I decided I wanted an all in one computer to tidy up my home desk, and the iMac was easily the nicest option available in 2012, and in my opinion still is. My first experiences with with computers were with my dad’s Macintosh Plus, but when I left home for university and in all subsequent jobs I was using a Windows PC.
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