Key Mapping

[adaminc]

Alright, after much scouring the net, I have found the holy grail for key mapping, or key binding as its called in osx.

 

http://www.lsmason.com/articles/macosxkeybindings.html

 

Go to the link and follow the instructions, further down the page there is an example for mapping some of the keys normally used in windows, i'm gonna start working on some more, the ones that are there work awesome, lemme know if you come up with any new bindings.

 

I just noticed that some applications can take precedence over the binding you make, i.e. I noticed in firefox some of the bindings dont work.

[Xopek]

I don't have /Library/KeyBindings folder ;-(

I create it and a DefaultKeyBinding.dict file in it, but keybinding still doen't work :-(.

[Rammjet]

~/Library/KeyBindings folder is in your Home directory.

 

Create the folder and file in the Library folder inside the folder with your user name on it.

[Xopek]

I've create file DefaultKeyBinding.dict in /Users/myuser/Library/KeyBindings folder, but key binding still don't works. ;-(. Maybe folder name must be KeyBinding?

[Rammjet]

What is inside the DefaultKeyBinding.dict?

[Xopek]

{
"^\010"	= "deleteWordBackward:";
"\UF729"   = "moveToBeginningOfLine:";
"^\UF729"  = "moveToBeginningOfDocument:";
"$\UF729"  = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:";
"$^\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfDocumentAndModifySelection:";
"\UF72B"   = "moveToEndOfLine:";
"^\UF72B"  = "moveToEndOfDocument:";
"$\UF72B"  = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:";
"$^\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfDocumentAndModifySelection:";
"^\UF702"  = "moveWordBackward:";
"^\UF703"  = "moveWordForward:";
"$^\UF702" = "moveWordBackwardAndModifySelection:";
"$^\UF703" = "moveWordForwardAndModifySelection:";
"\UF72C"   = "pageUp:";
"\UF72D"   = "pageDown:";
"^z"	   = "undo:";
"$\UF728"  = "cut:";
"$\UF746"  = "paste:";
"^\UF746"  = "copy:";
"$\UF729"  = ("setMark:","moveToBeginningOfLine:","selectToMark:");
"$\UF72B"  = ("setMark:","moveToEndOfLine:","selectToMark:");
}

[Rammjet]

Looks good except for one thing that I don't think should break it, but might.

 

The last two lines define keys that you already defined near the top of the list.

 

"$\UF729"  = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:";
"$\UF729"  = ("setMark:","moveToBeginningOfLine:","selectToMark:");

"$\UF72B"  = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:";
"$\UF72B"  = ("setMark:","moveToEndOfLine:","selectToMark:");

I would think that the first definition would be replaced by the second and it would work.

[mathz]

Hi all,

 

same problem here.

I've created ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict and the content is just the replacement of two keys for testing purpose.

{

"\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLine:"; /* Home = Start of line */

"\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLine:"; /* End = End of line */

}

 

What's wrong?? Can someone help me out here??

 

Thx alot,

matthaeus