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Aral Balkan Oct 22, 2024

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

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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

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Aral Balkan Oct 22, 2024

And since we’re on the subject of typography, 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.)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key

#ComposeKey #macOS

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Aral Balkan Oct 22, 2024

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?