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What are your Spotlight keyboard shortcuts?
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<blockquote data-quote="remain" data-source="post: 325928" data-attributes="member: 23182"><p>I assume that for most people,</p><p>it would be:</p><p></p><p>command space - open Spotlight in the top right corner</p><p>command option space - open Spotlight window</p><p></p><p></p><p>But ever since I installed Tiger, for me, it's:</p><p><strong>ctrl</strong> space - open Spotlight in the top right corner</p><p><strong>ctrl</strong> option space - open Spotlight window </p><p></p><p>and as for the other shortcuts, it's:</p><p></p><p>command space - toggle between last two keyboard layouts/text input</p><p>command option space - toggle between ALL keyboard layouts/text input</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But then I noticed that on <a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459" target="_blank">Apple's page on keyboard shortcuts</a>, </p><p>it said that it was in fact the "command" set of shortcuts that were for Spotlight.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I thought, "What? This can't be right..." </p><p>And I didn't think it would be a mistake, seeing as this is Apple's official page.</p><p>But actually, many other Mac help pages said the same thing.</p><p></p><p></p><p>So then I did some digging and found this page:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2005050215132822" target="_blank">http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2005050215132822</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>So apparently, Apple actually decided to set the Spotlight shortcuts as <strong>existing keyboard shortcuts</strong> (those of switching text input).</p><p></p><p>But if a user is upgrading to Tiger and has the Input Menu displayed (such as myself),</p><p>the keyboard shortcuts for Spotlight is remapped to "ctrl space" and "ctrl option space".</p><p></p><p></p><p>...Is it just me, or this was a <strong>very bad decision</strong> on the part of Apple??</p><p></p><p>I mean, isn't it just plain confusing to have two arguably important keyboard shortcuts be either "text input" in certain situations, and "Spotlight search" in others?!</p><p></p><p></p><p>Thoughts? Opinions?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="remain, post: 325928, member: 23182"] I assume that for most people, it would be: command space - open Spotlight in the top right corner command option space - open Spotlight window But ever since I installed Tiger, for me, it's: [B]ctrl[/B] space - open Spotlight in the top right corner [B]ctrl[/B] option space - open Spotlight window and as for the other shortcuts, it's: command space - toggle between last two keyboard layouts/text input command option space - toggle between ALL keyboard layouts/text input But then I noticed that on [url="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459"]Apple's page on keyboard shortcuts[/url], it said that it was in fact the "command" set of shortcuts that were for Spotlight. I thought, "What? This can't be right..." And I didn't think it would be a mistake, seeing as this is Apple's official page. But actually, many other Mac help pages said the same thing. So then I did some digging and found this page: [URL="http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2005050215132822"]http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2005050215132822[/URL] So apparently, Apple actually decided to set the Spotlight shortcuts as [B]existing keyboard shortcuts[/B] (those of switching text input). But if a user is upgrading to Tiger and has the Input Menu displayed (such as myself), the keyboard shortcuts for Spotlight is remapped to "ctrl space" and "ctrl option space". ...Is it just me, or this was a [B]very bad decision[/B] on the part of Apple?? I mean, isn't it just plain confusing to have two arguably important keyboard shortcuts be either "text input" in certain situations, and "Spotlight search" in others?! Thoughts? Opinions? [/QUOTE]
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