I have a Swiss keyboard and in many (developer-based) programs I get a conflict with one of my favorite shortcuts: Cmd + Shift + 7 or Cmd + /. I use this to set the focus to every OSX application's Help > Search
menu entry, where I can search and execute any commands without having to use the mouse.
So for example in Textmate or Xcode this shortcut makes comments from the selected text, rather than jumping to Help > Search
.
Now I don't want to do this for every program (A setting I would loose on a new Mac again). So is there a global way to set the Help > Search
-Shortcut as the master?
cmd-?
For the search?Cmd-?
-- see System Preferences » Keyboard » Keyboard Shortcuts » Application Shortcuts. Hence the question why you don't just use that instead to prevent collision with quite a few programs.Cmd-Shift-/
and that works out toCmd-?
on International English and US keyboards. It's probably simply not adapted for non-US keyboards, similar to the window switcherCmd-Backtick
. I'd still suggest you set it toCmd-?
, which probably prevents quite a few shortcut collisions.