Windows-to-Macbook

23 May 2015

Cheat-Sheet

When I got my shiny macbook at the start of the last project, the shine of it quickly wore off as I went through the pain of actually getting down to day to day work of actually using the thing to do stuff. This pain I speak of was due to the keyboard shortcut muscle memory engrained in my brain after many a year of bashing on windows laptops.

Recently, I remembered thinking at the time that I could not find a decent ‘cheat-sheet’ around the web that had this all in one place. So here is mine. And yes, that damn hash key location is included!

annoying ones

ctrl+shift+eject => the quick screen lock
Cmd+tab => switch program
Cmd+~ => switch window (of a program, e.g. 2 chrome windows open)
Cmd+r => (on a browser) the forced refresh
Alt+3 => # character

crtl-c + ctrl-v

The copy-paste operations are pretty easy to get used to actually, its just re-positioning the angle of your hand here

Cmd+a => select all
Cmd+x => cut
Cmd+c => copy
Cmd+v => paste

Other Text Editory Stuff

Cmd+z => undo
Cmd+f => find
Cmd+s => save
Cmd+left => move cursor to start of line
Cmd+right => move cursor to end of line
Alt+left => move cursor back one word
Alt+right => move cursor forward one word
Cmd+up => move cursor to top of document
Cmd+down => move cursor to end of document
Fn+left => move view to top of document
Fn+right => move view to bottom of document
Fn+up => move view up one page
Fn+down => move view down one page

Pretty satisifying actually writing this post on a macbook, now that I have most of the above in muscle memory. I’ll update here again if anymore come to mind.

I try not to be a big fanboy type, but I am glad I have the macbook now. Just for the *nix-like terminal, at my fingertips at all times. Never out of there when I’m on this. MS-DOS, ugh.

NB: - ctrl+shift+eject => ctrl+shift+(power key) on macbooks that don’t have an optical drive (so there is no eject key)

Hope it helps!