Not sure that you would want to swap command & option, I know I would
get very confused if print/save/cut/copy/paste etc. suddenly strayed
from their mac write/paint roots. If it truly drives you nuts, quick-
keys from ce software (http://www.cesoft.com/) will allow you to
assign custom keystrokes to almost anything you want -- normally you
would record a sequence, but you could just do assign command-shift-
arrow key to option-shift-arrowkey, that way you wouldn't mess up the
rest of your menus.
or a quick google turned up
I searched OS X download sites for cheaper alternatives and found a
couple of promising utilities. Both are well designed.
One that can easily perform most of the functions of QuicKeys is
Keyboard Maestro, a $20 Mac OS X program from
www.clairewaresoftware.com. I ran it instead of QuicKeys for about
a month and hardly missed QuicKeys. It does not have the range of
functions that QuicKeys for OS X does, but I suspect most users
would not mind.
Another utility for OS X that seems promising is Key Xing, which
costs only $7. I liked it immediately. You can download it from
homepage.mac.com/scalo/keyxing.html. If you like iTunes, the music
software supplied free with all modern Apple computers, you'll love
Key Xing. It lets you control the iTunes program from the keyboard,
without needing iTunes visible.
A third OS X macro program is Youpi Key, from the French
programmer Philippe Hupe. It's free, has many advanced features.
Exploring them might take a week, but the time would be enjoyably
spent. When I tried Youpi Key, I felt the program needed a little
more polishing. Just before writing this review, I checked the
author's Web site and saw that he had improved the software already.
You can download Youpi Key from Hupe's Web site, perso.club-
internet.fr/phupe/english. If you have a hard time getting to that
site, go to www.versiontracker.com, click the OS X category, and
use "Youpi Key" (without quotes) as the search term.
It does seem strange to stray from a pretty well established mac
convention -- particularly if users have a non-mac keybaord without a
command key.
Andy
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On Sep 9, 2005, at 1:23 PM, Brant Sears wrote:
I'm using NeoOffice/J 1.1 for MacOS X. One issue that I have
noticed is that the normal key combinations used for editing text
on the Mac like Shift+Optiion+Left Arrow to extend the selection
by a word using the Command key in NeoOffice/J for some reason. Too
bad I have over 10 years of muscle memory telling me to press the
Option key instead of Command.
In the configuration, there is a way to change what a key
combination does, but there does not seem to be a way to edit the
key combination itself. Am I missing some way to configure the app
the way I want (i.e. swap the Command and Option keys)?
Thanks
Brant Sears
