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by kristjansson·6y ago·view on hn ↗
Does an app have shortcut you don't like? Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts and click the plus. As prompted, enter the exact title of menu action you want trigger and the new shortcut. I use the on all my machines to rebind Quit Safari / Chrome / Firefox /Mail to Cmd + Option + Q to avoid killing the application when I fat-finger Cmd + Q instead of Cmd + W.

Others already mentioned:

- three-finger drag is indispensable. Anytime I touch someone else's laptop I turn it on and blow their minds

- hold Cmd in Spotlight to reavel the path containing the selected item, Cmd + Enter opens that folder in Finder.

- readline keys work in basically every text input on the machine. Want to delete a line? C-a C-k. Delete the word preceding the cursor? M-Backspace.

- Cmd + Down opens the selected item in finder, Cmd + Up jumps one level up the folder hierarchy Cmd + Left/Right expand/collapse

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That's a really neat trick!

Worth noting: Chrome actually no longer dies when you fat-finger cmd-w. It shows a "hold cmd-q to quit" overlay and only dies if you keep holding the keys down.

That's a setting you enable in the app menu, not the default
Is it? Oh man, must've been a long time since I enabled it. They should make it the default.
Not built into macOS, but you can use this app to get the Chrome-style quit delay for every app:

https://commandqapp.com/