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Eclipse: Shortcut to navigate back in edit history
I'm looking for something like CTRL + Q but for many edits. So if I press one time, cursor goes to last edit. If I press again cursor goes to previous edit, etc. Or dropdown with edit history (like ...
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Create taskbar shortcut to website in Window 7
I'd like to create a shortcut to a website in Windows 7 on the taskbar that is not pinned to the default web browser. Currently if I drag the favicon from the left end of the firefox address bar to ...
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Mac OS not all shortcuts are visible in Preferences
I have a question about mac shortcuts. I wanted to change Command-` shortcut but I do not find it in the shortcut settings. It was there before but now it has disappeared as well as most of the ...
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Passing the an argument to Windows shortcut
I was successful in opening vim via shortcut in Windows.
It is simple as creating a target with
C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe /bin/vim
Now when I open a file with this shortcut, it seems as though ...
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Is there a timeout setting for resolving Windows shortcuts to executable files?
If you right-click or press Alt+Enter on a shortcut, Windows normally displays the context menu or Properties dialog right away, even if the shortcut is broken and points to a file or directory that ...
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OneNote 2010 Pen Button Shortcuts?
I recently got a Wacom CTL460 (which included a pen with two buttons) and I installed Microsoft Office OneNote 2010. I've decided that hovering over the board would move the cursor, contact would be a ...
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slow windows desktop keyboard shortcuts
I've got a couple of shortcuts on my desktop and on some of them I've configured the "Shortcut key" to a keyboard combination. For example I have a shortcut pointing to d:\documents\todo.txt and I've ...
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Windows - Four-Finger Swipe for Spaces (Deskspaces)
Is there a way to add a shortcut while dragging four fingers on the keyboard?
With Elan Smart Pad, my computer can perform certain tasks by a slip of the fingers on the pad (mac style).
The problem ...
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How can i use Internet Explorer's SearchUrl shortcut (in the address bar)?
Internet Explorer has long had a very useful "hidden feature": a shortcut for quick searches from the address bar, allowing you to use any number of websites as search providers (as described in this ...
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How to make shortcut to another shortcut?
When attempting to create a shortcut to another shortcut, Windows XP assigns the target of the original shortcut to the new shortcut. This happens even when I enter the target path manually, and I am ...
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Custom keyboard shortcuts in LibreOffice
Although I use Kubuntu Linux, this question probably applies to any OS that runs LibreOffice.
How do I make my custom keyboard shortcuts automatically load in LibreOffice? When you select "save," you ...
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Where can I find a comprehensive list of DOSbox shortcut commands?
I've got a shortcut linked to dosbox.exe named:
dosbox - START.lnk
in it I have
D:_DOSBox\dosbox.exe -conf mydosbox.conf -noconsole -c
However, I only got it because I looked into some of the ...
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How can I pin a program to the Windows 7 Taskbar, with parameters?
In my case, I have to login and manage user accounts on a specific PC on our network quite frequently. I just learned that I can use the Windows Computer Management Snap-in to connect to another PC ...
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Creating a batch file to launch the currently opened applications and folders
Example: If I were viewing example.txt in a Notepad and editing an image in GIMP, I'd like to generate a batch file that would launch those files using those applications after I've closed the ...
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Quickly insert an internal hyperlink in a Microsoft Word document?
When working on a word document having large number of bookmarks, inserting internal hyperlink using usual "Insert Hyperlink" dialog is laborious.
You need to manually search for the bookmark in the ...
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Keyboard shortcut to focus/unfocus on flash element in browser?
I've recently started using the Vimium plugin for Chrome to allow me for browsing the web using some common Vi(m) keyboard shortcuts.
The HTML5 video player used by Youtube can be controlled by some ...
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How to open a set of tabs together quickly?
How to open a set of tabs together quickly? I normally use "Pin Tab" in a session, and if Chrome is closed normally, the previous set of pinned tabs will be opened pinned automatically next time. ...
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How to automatically add a shortcut for removable media on Windows desktop, like some Linux distros?
I use sometimes some Linux distros, e.g. Ubuntu, and I like the feature they have to add a desktop shortcut to every removable device that is plugged in on desktop - for example, when a DVD is ...
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cmd-tab / cmd-opt-tab switching between applications
On OS X, if I cmd-tab between applications without a window open (say, Chrome after I've closed all current windows), I will be able to switch to that application but no new window will open; to open ...
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IE9 Error: There was a pr◌blem sending the command to the program
I'm working on a new/fresh Windows 7 32bit machine that now has IE9 installed. The user is using the Dell Stardock application as his primary "desktop" (all his links there). When we place an internet ...
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Shortcuts located in “D:\Program Data\…” not working even though they're pointing to the right targets (Windows 7)
I just made a fresh install of my windows 7 home premium using my laptop's recovery disks (HP Pavilion dv6-2151cl) using minimal settings. After install, I set up "Program Data" and "Users" to my D ...
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perform actions on a web page from desktop shortcut
I'm looking for a way to create windows desktop shortcuts that will open a web page and execute a javascript function in that page. The page is a form for filling attendance hours with a function to ...
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How can I see a visual overlay of shortcut keys I've pressed?
I've seen several screencasts (recorded on Mac OS X) which show a nice little "toast" indicating which shortcut key is being pressed by the screencaster, typically in the middle of the screen. Is this ...
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send name to Outlook new contact from command line
i have a working Windows shortcut, which opens a new contact form in Outlook 2010 "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\OUTLOOK.EXE" /recycle /c ipm.contact
But i would like to additionally ...
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Why does Windows 7 change the properties of my shortcuts? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to disable magic searching after I move targets of shortcuts in windows server 2003?
I've got a shortcut on my desktop for an executable on a mapped drive. Lets say ...
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Open file with a batch file pinned to the taskbar
How do you get a file opened by a batch file pinned to the taskbar?
In XP you could just drag your batch file onto the quicklaunch section of the taskbar, then any file you drop on that icon would be ...
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Windows User Profile 'StarKeith.net' moving e.g. 'send to', 'templates', 'start menu' shortcuts etc?
I used the StarKeith.net method to "Move my Windows User Profile to another Drive" but the user profile 'shortcuts' won't move, copy, drag etc.?
...these are: 'send to', 'templates', 'start menu' ...
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How to input the character “æ” from a japanese MacOS X keyboard?
According to the Wikipedia page, Option + ' (apostrophe key) should be enough to input the "æ" under Mac OS X.
However, on my japanese MacBook, it results in "¶".
Is there a menu where I can change ...
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Can you re-purpose built-in laptop keyboard as a hotkey launcher?
I have a MacBook Pro - but I don't use the keyboard, I use a (more ergonomic) plugin keyboard.
I have an x-keys (programmable keypad). I'm thinking of getting another one, but it just struck me as ...
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Windows 7 CD-ROM shortcut
can someone explain how I can have a .lnk file on a cd-rom that can have parameters to locate the cd-rom path no matter what drive letter it happens to be in? In other words, no matter if it's ...
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How can I create an Computer Icon on Windows 8 Server Beta's Desktop?
For some bad reason Microsoft decided to remove all standard desktop icons besides the Recyle bin.
It is easy to create shortcuts to each single disk using create shortcut method.
But I would like ...
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In Windows XP, how do you create a shortcut to the desktop?
Running the command desktop brings up C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Desktop. This is different from the top of the hierarchy, "Desktop".
I would like to create a shortcut or create a command ...
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Using function keys as Photoshop shortcuts
I was trying to add keyboard shortcuts to Photoshop CS5, after watching the ctrlpaint tutorial, using function keys. I was able to map F3, F4 and F5 to Zoom Out, Zoom In and Fit to Screen just fine.
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What dictates the possible compatibility options for a Windows shortcut?
If you've ever dug into the properties sheet of a shortcut, you've might have come across this page:
I highlighted a specific dropdown box in red. This is what it looks like, if I expand the ...
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Keyboard shortcut to jump to the home of a website
I'm wondering if there exists a keyboard shortcut in Firefox (or other web browsers) that can trigger the jump from a page of a website to the home of the website. The example below may make my ...
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Create a shortcut with administrator rights for hosts file in Win 7
I'm trying to create a shortcut link on my desktop that is a link to the hosts file in Windows 7. The problem is that this shortcut will not open in administrator mode as the option will be greyed out ...
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How to define a shortcut (key combination) to insert “<tag></tag>” in Emacs?
I want to define a shortcut to enter XML tag pairs. Pressing key combination key1-key2 which should prompt for entering a tag name, .e.g. "foo", and automatically insert "<foo></foo>". ...
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Where is my hot-keyed shortcut?
I made a shortcut hotkey, so ctrl+1 opened a certain file. I have since deleted the original file, but I have forgotten where I put the shortcut. Is there any way of finding out where it is?
The fact ...
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How can I follow a windows shortcut in power shell?
I am using powershell and I have a shortcut to my destination directory in the current directory. I want to change the current directory to the one pointed to by the shortcut. Logically what I want to ...
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How do I get Ctrl + Shift + arrow keys to highlight blocks of text in windows 7?
Currently Ctrl + Shift + Arrow keys changes the orientation of my screen! Apparently it can highlight text, but I don't know how to get that functionality. How do I get it to stop changing the ...
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How to make a shortcut from CMD?
How can I create a shortcut file (.lnk) to another file or executable, using command line utilities?
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How to overlay an icon like the tick sync in Dropbox?
How exactly do you overlay an icon? Like a shortcut icon on Windows?
For example, Dropbox overlayed the icons on the files and folders with a tick sign, indicating that they are in sync with the ...
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Environment variable set in batch isn't expanded in shortcut
How can I make my environment variable (set in batch file) visible in application executed right after setting this envvar?
Here's the scenario that I use:
In my external script (not quite ...
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Is there any shortcut to iterate through Excel's worksheet tabs?
Is there any keyboard shortcut to iterate through Excel's worksheet tabs more easily?
Maybe something that would allow me to see all the tabs together and select one of them to switch to it.
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How to define default program to open shortcuts? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to reset shortcuts (.lnk file) in Windows 7?
In Windows 7 I have accidentally set OUTLOOK.EXE as the default program to open all Shortcuts. So now the Outlook icon ...
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How to slide between windows on OS X
How does the user at 23 seconds in this video (possible NSFW language) slide between two different applications like that? Is there a shortcut to do this?
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MacVim : Switch Tab Shortcut
Is there any shortcuts to switch the Tabs from one to another in MacVim ?
Else, any tips to bind the shortcuts myself in .vimrc like ⌘ + 1 for Tab 1 and ⌘ + 2 for Tab 2 . For example, like ...
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Windows 7 folder shortcut
I just noticed today that windows 7 folder shortcut manages to stay point to the folder even when the folder it points to changes location.
Since when has this feature being available and what's done ...
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Shortcut target maximum character exceeded
Is there a way to manage the limit of character in target in shorcuts?
I need to add more commands in a target (to set environment variables) and I can't!
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Shortcut is unavailable after migrating data from another computer and upgrading Windows
My computer with Windows XP on it crashed. A technician copied pictures and videos from the hard drive to another computer with XP, then XP was updated to Windows 7 to mirror with the network system ...
