Cheatsheet For Mac

By. 6:00 am, June 8, 2012. If you’re a Mac user of some length of time or experience, you know that there are a ton of keyboard shortcuts laced throughout the operating system. In addition, every application you run on your Mac has a ton of these same shortcuts.

• Cheat Sheet For Macbook Air
• Cheat Sheet For Macbook

Advertisement One easy way to see them is to click on a menu in a running application. To the right of each menu command, you’ll see the Keyboard shortcut for that particular menu selection. For example, clicking on the Edit menu in most applications on the Mac will give you the Cut (Command-X), Copy (Command-C), and Paste (Command-V) shortcuts.

Cheat Sheet For Macbook Air

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There’s an easier way, however, to see all the application’s associated keyboard shortcuts, in the form of an application you can download right now. CheatSheet, an app by Media Atelier, is an app that runs in the background on your Mac. In any application, holding the Command key down for a couple of seconds will bring up all the shortcut commands available to that app in a big visual menu. Website and move the application to your Applications folder. If you don’t and try to double click on it, OS X Lion will kindly tell you it has to run from Applications, and would you let it move it for you. Tell it yes, and then you’ll see the prompt that shows you how to activate CheatSheet by holding down the Command button.

In any application, now, hold the Command key down and you’ll see all the keyboard shortcuts available to you in that app.

Cheat Sheet For Macbook

Terminal Cheatsheet for Mac (Basics). Letters are shown capitalized for readability only. Capslock should be off. SHORTCUTS Key/Command Description Ctrl + A Go to the beginning of the line you are currently typing on. This also works for most text input fields system wide. Netbeans being one exception Ctrl + E Go to the end of the line you are currently typing on.

This also works for most text input fields system wide. Netbeans being one exception Ctrl + Q Clears everything on current line Ctrl + L Clears the Screen Cmd + K Clears the Screen Ctrl + U Cut everything backwards to beginning of line Ctrl + K Cut everything forward to end of line Ctrl + W Cut one word backwards using white space as delimiter Ctrl + Y Paste whatever was cut by the last cut command Ctrl + H Same as backspace Ctrl + C Kill whatever you are running Ctrl + D Exit the current shell when no process is running, or send EOF to a the running process Ctrl + Z Puts whatever you are running into a suspended background process. Fg restores it. Ctrl + Undo the last command. So it's actually Ctrl + Shift + minus) Ctrl + T Swap the last two characters before the cursor Ctrl + F Move cursor one character forward Ctrl + B Move cursor one character backward Option + → Move cursor one word forward Option + ← Move cursor one word backward Esc + T Swap the last two words before the cursor Tab Auto-complete files and folder names CORE COMMANDS Key/Command Description cd folder Change directory e.g. Cd Documents cd Home directory cd Home directory cd / Root of drive cd - Previous directory ls Short listing ls -l Long listing ls -a Listing incl. Hidden files ls -lh Long listing with Human readable file sizes ls -R Entire content of folder recursively sudo command Run command with the security privileges of the superuser (Super User DO) open file Opens a file ( as if you double clicked it ) top Displays active processes.