{"id":30316,"date":"2015-05-07T13:01:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T18:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=30316"},"modified":"2015-05-07T14:23:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T19:23:21","slug":"tech-tips-os-x-keyboard-shortcuts-you-may-have-forgotten-or-never-knew-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/30316-tech-tips-os-x-keyboard-shortcuts-you-may-have-forgotten-or-never-knew-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Tips: OS X Keyboard Shortcuts You May Have Forgotten…Or Never Knew Of"},"content":{"rendered":"
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12-inch MacBook keyboard, Photo by Steven Sande<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since the first Mac rolled off of the assembly lines in 1984, there have always been keyboard shortcuts available to make certain actions easier to perform than grabbing them from a menu. For example, we\u2019re probably all aware of Command-A for selecting all text, Command-C for copying selected text and Command-V for pasting it. You may even know some keyboard shortcuts that are specific to a certain app. In this Rocket Yard\u00a0Tech Tip<\/a>, I\u2019ll talk about some other useful shortcuts that can save time while working while also providing a history lesson.<\/p>\n

First, let\u2019s go back to the early days of OS X. The operating system that is in use on the vast majority of today\u2019s Macs has its roots in NeXTStep, the operating system that was used on NeXT workstations from Steve Jobs\u2019 second computer company. NeXTStep had its roots in Unix (as does Mac OS X), an operating system first developed in the 1970s by Bell Labs researchers.<\/p>\n

In 1976, two developers wrote a text editor called EMACS, which stood for Editor MACroS for TECO, which was a line editor. Well, some EMACS commands are still usable in OS X, in dialog boxes, TextEdit windows, in Safari\u2019s address bar, and in many OS X apps. Those shortcuts are:<\/p>\n