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Command+, to bring up preferences is surefire, does linux/windows have the same yet? I remember Command+W not working as consistently as well.
Word and like jumps in Windows also felt backwards to me, doing the equivalent of w instead of e in vim, and couldn't be consistently combined with shift.
Support for Alt+Dpad(+Shift) and Command+Dpad(+Shift) is important IMO. As well as Double/Triple-click+Drag: it should select additional units not letters.
These last paragraphs are OS-level but the features were missing or inconsistent.
> Command+, to bring up preferences is surefire, does linux/windows have the same yet?
I just tried this in macOS (Catalina), in Chrome while I happened to be looking at a design page in figma.com and nothing happened.
Not so surefire I guess. To be fair - I assume the web page was capturing that shortcut. It worked on the new tab page.
The point though is that this is an app thing, not a macOS thing. If every app on Windows and Linux decided to use the same exact shortcut for opening preferences, then we'd have that. On macOS, Apple does not strictly enforce Cmd+, for opening preferences - any macOS app can use that for whatever they want.
> Word and like jumps in Windows also felt backwards to me...
Jumping words is done with Ctrl+left/right arrow in Windows and Linux. On macOS it's Option+left/right arrow. On all systems, it can be combined with Shift to highlight the word.
> Support for Alt+Dpad(+Shift) and Command+Dpad(+Shift) is important IMO. As well as Double/Triple-click+Drag: it should select additional units not letters.
Not sure what this means, but on my Linux desktops I have absolute freedom to make my keyboard and mouse to do just about anything I can dream of. Meanwhile, in macOS I am often told that if I am not loving the way that Apple has chosen for me to behave, then I must be expecting the wrong thing...
You can do very similar things on macOS. `Option+E, A` generates á, `Option-U, U` yields ü, and so forth. There are tons of alternate characters available like this using the Option keys, generally covering the most used glyphs I've needed. Beyond that, the Rocket app is fantastic for finding and inserting emojis and more complicated emoticons by human-friendly name.
[1]: ± some depending on if you count multiple ways of creating the same character, etc. Eg. ‘≠’ can be made by combining / and = in either order. Also ‘Compose, number, s’ for footnotes, ‘Compose, +, -’ → ±, ‘Compose , <, '’ → “‘”, ‘Compose, -, >’ → “→”, ‘Compose, =, >” → “⇒” are nice. And υɳⅰеηⅽоⅾе.
I just tried Cmd-, in both Safari and Chrome, and in both cases it brought up preferences. That a website might interrupt that doesn't prevent it from being a MacOS standard.
Dystopia isn't guaranteed; don't go gentle into that good night.
Highly recommend reading "On Tyranny", it's a great small, pertinent book for $10 at most book stores.
Edit: to be clear China's social credit system is extremely dystopian to me and is already taking shape, but I trust most/all democratic societies (including US) to fend it off.
