Desperately Seeking Key Bindings
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As you're no doubt aware by now, I'm a Mac weenie (one of us, one of us, ...) and have been for 9 months or so now having switched from Gentoo Linux - I got sick of managing my irrational need to constantly upgrade and re-compile the kernel.
When I made The Switch(tm), it took me a few weeks to re-learn the keyboard so that I could get back to using mac apps the way I had used X and before that Windoze apps. I'm also an IntelliJ weenie and the one thing I've found that frustrates the hell out of me is that the keybindings (for the Mac) are totally and utterly non-standard. For example, I want to use Command-W to close a tab.
I know I could go in and change the keymap myself but there are probably dozens if not hundreds of commands to map and, as I'm fundamentally lazy, I figured I'd make a plea to anyone who may have performed this heroic effort already ;-). So, if anyone out there has a comprehensive Mac OS X keymap for IntelliJ, feel free to fling it my way and in return, I'll...um...sing your praises?
P.S. telling me to use Eclipse or be a real man and use VI key bindings aint gonna cut it either - I prefer IntelliJ flavoured kool-ade ;-)
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i swear i gave this to you once before, but here's mine that incorporates quite a few more-common mac shortcuts:
http://fotap.org/~osi/files/Modified%20OS%20X.xml
one crappy thing i've noticed though, is, under Tiger, using the Idea L&F, Command-Shift-F for 'Find Files in Path' no longer works, it just beeps at me. Which sucks.
Feel free to make changes, perhaps we can collaborate it into something better!
Posted by: peter royal | May 4, 2005 11:23 PM
Ahh! Awesome! Indeed you did but I lost it somewhere along the way and I'd forgotten where it had come from. If I make any changes I'll be sure and send the updated version to you.
Thanks!
Posted by: Simon Harris | May 4, 2005 11:30 PM