Rob's Blog

Keyboard shortcuts
03rd Nov 2009 14:11

I'm quite a dab hand with a PC keyboard. Having used Windows since I was a child I know my shortcuts and I can touch type at a very respectable rate. All of that equates to the ability to navigate around Windows very quickly and efficiently. Moving to a Mac last week had the equivalent affect of putting oven gloves on my hands. I'd instinctively hit a variety of keyboard shortcuts only to find that entire sections of code would disappear from Coda, or that rather than switching to a new tab the Mac would start dictating code to me. In Russian. This was all very frustrating. However, it's nice to see that the shortcuts are still very much here. I've just discovered that to indent a selected block of text on a mac you hit Command+]. Obviously, on a PC that was normally done with just TAB, but on the Mac that seemed to inadvertently delete the selected text. The more I get to grips with the shortcuts, the easier this transition is becoming. It's like being on Linux but graced with Photoshop and native Spotify, bloody brilliant.