Aral Balkan
If you’re on a Mac and you want to change the keyboard shortcut for showing the emoji picker, e.g., to ⌘E, you can do so from Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts… → App Shortcuts → All Applications.
Press the + button to add a shortcut and, in the Menu title textbox, enter (exactly):
Emoji & Symbols
Hit Done and you’re, umm, done.
This is useful when using a non-Apple external keyboard and ⌘^space is too verbose.
#macOS #emoji #emojiPicker #keyboard #shortcut #keyboardShortcut
Aral Balkan
Related little typographical tidbit:
If you want to enter the symbol for the command key, it’s known as the “place of interest sign” and you can enter it via the emoji picker by searching for “place”.
#macOS #Mac #command #key #placeOfInterestSign #unicode #emojiPicker
Reginald
@aral It is a "place of interest symbol," but also so much more:
Aral Balkan
And since we’re on the subject of typography and the Mac, one of the things you might miss from Linux (say, hypothetically, if you decided you’d had enough and were going back from Linux to macOS after six years), might be the all-powerful Compose Key*.
Well, fear not, because you can emulate it as Howard Rogers has basically recreated it using DefaultKeyBinding.dict:
https://absolutelybaching.com/a-compose-key-for-the-mac/
(In Vial, I made my Caps Lock produce a § and mapped it to that.)
Aral Balkan
@hyde I do (use WezTerm) and I never knew; thanks :)
Hyde 📷 🖋 :debian:
@aral or if you use #wezTerm type Ctrl+Shift+u and you get ⤵️
Aral Balkan
@sunny I can’t seem to find the Fn key in Vial (apparently there were compatibility issues but then it was added to QMK but I guess it hasn’t made its way over yet or something) so this is my workaround :)
Sunny :blobfoxsnug:
@aral For me the OS decides that it wants to open this window somehow randomly so I went for the `Fn` key to make it simpler to retry...
Aral Balkan
One thing I missed from Howard’s Compose Key mappings was <compose>^1, <compose>^2, etc., to enter superscript digits¹ in toots² so I just added them in:
"\\^" = {
"1" = ("insertText:", "¹");
"2" = ("insertText:", "²");
"3" = ("insertText:", "³");
"4" = ("insertText:", "⁴");
"5" = ("insertText:", "⁵");
"6" = ("insertText:", "⁶");
"7" = ("insertText:", "⁷");
"8" = ("insertText:", "⁸");
"9" = ("insertText:", "⁹");
};
¹ AKA footnote indices :)
² Hey, why not?
Aral Balkan
@davidculley Six years of daily driving it :)
Seriously, though, I’ll write a post about it, I think. Many little things. Not like I won’t be using it. Kitten is deployed on Linux. But not as my main machine any longer.
David Culley
@aral I’m curious what made you move from Linux to macOS?
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