My Defaultkeybinding.dict For Mac

The /Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict file lets you define your own key bindings in Mac OS X. It can be in one of two formats: old-style NeXT format (example) or modern-style XML plist format (example). Rebinding ⌘ + ⌫.

• Keys can be rebound in mac via /Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict dictionary file. The rebound keys can be chained like compose keys e.g. Pressing abcd can be made to insert AlphaBetaCharlieDad Modifier keys cannot be rebound With these three rules we can replicate compose key and even set it to work with a mod key!
• Make Home & End keys behave like Windows on Mac OS X. 24 April 2015 Apple keyboards macOS. I've been using Mac OS X daily since 2001 when I purchased my Titanium PowerBook and I still can't get used the home and end key behavior.
• The first thing I did the same as I do to any Mac upon first boot: add a DefaultKeyBinding.dict so my home/end buttons work properly. Then I set about installing my usual software items and doing some perfunctory tests. List of software below. I've not encountered anything that I needed to.
• So im very used to emacs keybindings. I use it for emacs and conkeror so often times i hit M-w etc and these keys don't work in mac os x. I googled it, and found this and this. Guess u can have emacs keybindings in mac os xfor programs that use the cocoa appkit. Too bad this doesn't work when i edit in neooffice or ms office.

Thansk ! Very interesting article.
And you had me realize that Tiger brought back the Keyboard Desktop Accessory ! Gee !

Excellent list of shortcuts. I had no idea there were so many, thanks.
And the incremental search capability is something I hoped could be made available in other apps besides Firefox. Now I have it all over, thanks again!
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how did you get M-u to work as a keyboard shortcut? any of the meta modifiers that generate diacritics keep failing here.

I have the same problem. Using Option as Meta, M-c works but M-u does not.
Also the C-x bindings don't work either. C-x C-s would be wonderful. :)

darnit. Silly me. Apparently 'saveDocument:' doesn't work, but 'save:' does. I'll fix that. I thought I had tested it.

Yes. save: and saveAs: both work. Neither openDocument: nor open: seem to work though.

You're right. The diacretics make it fail. If you want to use ~u as a binding, you'll probably have to make a new keyboard layout, look at my full article. It links to an application called Ukelele which can do this.
Anaconda 2 movie watch online. Apparently the diacretic is getting caught at a lower level than the text system, so its shortcut won't work as a binding.

Does anybody know if there has been any work to integrate vim commands? I've searched a couple times over the past year, and couldn't find anything. My productivity would skyrocket.

I can't find any either, but I'm sure that if you did a little work to create the keybinding for it (even if it only covered the most popular vim commands), you would make a lot of geeks happy..
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It's not very possible, because Vim is a modal editor, whereas NSTextView widgets are not. But if you want, you can try to approximate some vim bindings by using modifier keys and leaving it non-modal.
If you come up with some good vim approximations, let me know and I'll add them to my page.

Vi keybindings exist for the bash shell, a user enter inserts mode by default unless they hit esc to go into command mode for whatever reason.
I don't see why a keybinding couldn't be designed that emulated this functionality.

Because Cocoa text fields are not modal. The original poster already told you why it is not possible to do this within the context of the Cocoa classes without doing more programming than mere configuration.

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while not a complete solution it is a working proof of concept, and still quite handy. i'm using it right now to write this message.

you can find viAllOver at http://www.dabble.org/viallover/

it works in most text fields of most cocoa apps, including text fields in html pages with Safari. also works in TextEdit, Mail, and SubEthaEdit to name a few.

My Defaultkeybinding.dict For Macbook Pro

i am the author and am still looking for help. enjoy.

Are there some defaults around to modify other aspects of the Cocoa text system? In particular I'd like to turn off the 'smart' selection when deleting a highlighted word--so the space _isn't_ deleted along with the word.

The /Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict file lets you define your own key bindings in Mac OS X. It can be in one of two formats: old-style NeXT format (example) or modern-style XML plist format (example). Rebinding ⌘ + ⌫.

• Keys can be rebound in mac via /Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict dictionary file. The rebound keys can be chained like compose keys e.g. Pressing abcd can be made to insert AlphaBetaCharlieDad Modifier keys cannot be rebound With these three rules we can replicate compose key and even set it to work with a mod key!
• Make Home & End keys behave like Windows on Mac OS X. 24 April 2015 Apple keyboards macOS. I've been using Mac OS X daily since 2001 when I purchased my Titanium PowerBook and I still can't get used the home and end key behavior.
• The first thing I did the same as I do to any Mac upon first boot: add a DefaultKeyBinding.dict so my home/end buttons work properly. Then I set about installing my usual software items and doing some perfunctory tests. List of software below. I've not encountered anything that I needed to.
• So im very used to emacs keybindings. I use it for emacs and conkeror so often times i hit M-w etc and these keys don't work in mac os x. I googled it, and found this and this. Guess u can have emacs keybindings in mac os xfor programs that use the cocoa appkit. Too bad this doesn't work when i edit in neooffice or ms office.

Thansk ! Very interesting article.
And you had me realize that Tiger brought back the Keyboard Desktop Accessory ! Gee !

Excellent list of shortcuts. I had no idea there were so many, thanks.
And the incremental search capability is something I hoped could be made available in other apps besides Firefox. Now I have it all over, thanks again!
---
d a v e
http://www.hostwerks.com/~dave/

how did you get M-u to work as a keyboard shortcut? any of the meta modifiers that generate diacritics keep failing here.

I have the same problem. Using Option as Meta, M-c works but M-u does not.
Also the C-x bindings don't work either. C-x C-s would be wonderful. :)

darnit. Silly me. Apparently 'saveDocument:' doesn't work, but 'save:' does. I'll fix that. I thought I had tested it.

Yes. save: and saveAs: both work. Neither openDocument: nor open: seem to work though.

You're right. The diacretics make it fail. If you want to use ~u as a binding, you'll probably have to make a new keyboard layout, look at my full article. It links to an application called Ukelele which can do this.
Anaconda 2 movie watch online. Apparently the diacretic is getting caught at a lower level than the text system, so its shortcut won't work as a binding.

Does anybody know if there has been any work to integrate vim commands? I've searched a couple times over the past year, and couldn't find anything. My productivity would skyrocket.

I can't find any either, but I'm sure that if you did a little work to create the keybinding for it (even if it only covered the most popular vim commands), you would make a lot of geeks happy..
---
In /dev/null, no one can hear you scream

It's not very possible, because Vim is a modal editor, whereas NSTextView widgets are not. But if you want, you can try to approximate some vim bindings by using modifier keys and leaving it non-modal.
If you come up with some good vim approximations, let me know and I'll add them to my page.

Vi keybindings exist for the bash shell, a user enter inserts mode by default unless they hit esc to go into command mode for whatever reason.
I don't see why a keybinding couldn't be designed that emulated this functionality.

Because Cocoa text fields are not modal. The original poster already told you why it is not possible to do this within the context of the Cocoa classes without doing more programming than mere configuration.

Cached

while not a complete solution it is a working proof of concept, and still quite handy. i'm using it right now to write this message.

you can find viAllOver at http://www.dabble.org/viallover/

it works in most text fields of most cocoa apps, including text fields in html pages with Safari. also works in TextEdit, Mail, and SubEthaEdit to name a few.

My Defaultkeybinding.dict For Macbook Pro

i am the author and am still looking for help. enjoy.

Are there some defaults around to modify other aspects of the Cocoa text system? In particular I'd like to turn off the 'smart' selection when deleting a highlighted word--so the space _isn't_ deleted along with the word.

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Hmm. that's a weird one. It seems to depend on how you select the text. If you double click it, it will delete the space. If you drag to select, it won't. One way to avoid deleting the space is to modify the selection after double-clicking the word, and then it won't take the space out. You could conceivably make a binding to deal with this, but I'm not sure if there is any other way to change the behavior on a systemwide basis.

My Defaultkeybinding.dict For Mac Os

Haven't seen this here -- and just for completeness: the possible values for the key bindings can be found here:
/System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/Headers/NSResponder.h -- look under the section 'Standard bindable commands'.

Mac Defaultkeybinding.dict