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Freeware util remaps PB keyboard under OS X

updated 08:55 am EST, Tue November 6, 2001

 
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CommmandAndControl 1.1 is a kernel extension for OS X 10.1 that is designed to reconfigure the keyboard: "This utility remaps the enter key into a Command (open apple) key, and switches the option and control keys. Thus, on the left side of the keyboard, the keys (in order) are: fn, opt, ctrl, command, and on the right side: command, ctrl."


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  1. videoalex

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    yeah but

    ...Why?

  1. doctorfish

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    11/06, 02:56pm | report spam | Reply | delete

    Why.

    This is why:
    1: Enter - Command : Who uses the Enter key anyway? It's right where the Command key is on desktop keyboards. Now you can hit Command-Delete with one hand, as well as Command-Arrowkeys for web back and forth with one hand.
    2: Option - Command : Now you can hit contextual menus (second mouse button) with one hand if you're right handed.
    3: Shift-Del - Fwd Del : (optional) Key not usually available on powerboks
    4: F12 Eject : (optional) Switches eject from F12 to Shift F12 so you don't eject accidentaly when missing delete.
    5: capslock - Control : (optional) For you geeks out there who miss having a real keyboard.

    -Pat

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    Awesome!

    This is wonderful! CommandAndControl Pro works perfectly on my iBook, and is such a help while programming or editing things in vim. Thanks very much for this!

    I've heard that the caplock light is activated by hardware, and not software, so I guess it's not possible to turn it on/off in software? That would be the only change that could improve this neat little hack... You can just safely ignore the light, of course, but it would be nice to only turn it on when the capslock is really on...

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    11/06, 06:59pm | report spam | Reply | delete

    Return Opens

    Command and Control does something close to what I want.

    There used to be this little OS9 Extension, called ReturnOpens that I loved and used everywhere, but it broke in going from 9.0 to 9.1.

    ReturnOpens simply remapped the "Return" key in the finder to Command-Open

    This made so much sense I got addicted to it.

    If you are in a dialogue box, you can arrow down, or hit a letter to get to your selection and then hit return to open it.

    If you are in the finder, you can still use the arrow keys and letters to get to an item, but when you hit the Return key, it highlights the name of the file.

    DUH!

    This seems to me to be such a User Ineterface violation. It works one way here and another way there.

    I'm perfectly happy to use the Enter key to rename files.

    I just want the Return key to open a file in the finder the way it does in a dialogue box.

    I open files a lot more often than I rename them.

  1. ciphun

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    11/06, 07:33pm | report spam | Reply |

    who uses "enter"?

    I do, i use it all the time, like just pushed the enter key to post this message, so I like it, but that's just me....

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