After discovering the LyX Users archive I found the answer:
dialog-show-new-inset ref
which is not hard.
Sorry,
Hal
On Dec 3, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Hal Kierstead wrote:
> I am using LyX 2.02 on Mac 10.6.8.
>
> How do I make a keyboard shortcut for inserting a cross-reference? I asked
> this a year or two ago and got very complicated answer that I have
> unfortunately lost. In the mean time I had instead made a keyboard short cut
> in OS X for the menu item, but this no longer seems to work in LyX 2.02.
>
> In fact, each time I opened LyX, my old OS X keyboard short cut for the menu
> item only worked after I first inserted a cross-reference using the mouse,
> but I tolerated this peculiarity.
>
> It seems that anything that you can do with a mouse click should be possible
> from the keyboard.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hal
