{"id":109,"date":"2007-12-06T15:17:44","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T22:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameskovacs.com\/2007\/12\/06\/Useful+Keyboard+Shortcuts"},"modified":"2007-12-06T15:17:44","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T22:17:44","slug":"useful-keyboard-shortcuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/06\/useful-keyboard-shortcuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful Keyboard Shortcuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know a few friends who are absolute keyboard junkies. They won’t even touch the mouse unless absolutely necessary. I tend to be more pragmatic about my keyboard use. If I use an application a lot, I learn the keyboard shortcuts. Otherwise I just reach for the mouse. That said, here are some keyboard shortcuts that I use regularly. I’ll skip the usual suspects like copy, cut, paste, undo, redo, … \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Windows*<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Close current application<\/td>\nALT-F4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Switch tasks<\/td>\nALT-TAB (2D)
Windows-TAB (3D)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lock your computer<\/td>\nWindows-L<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Display task manager<\/td>\nCTRL-SHIFT-Esc<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Run<\/td>\nWindows-R<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Launch a program in Vista<\/td>\nWindows and start typing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Show desktop<\/td>\nWindows-D (toggles)
Windows-M (no toggle)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Go to System Tray (icons beside the clock)<\/td>\nWindows-B<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Launch Explorer<\/td>\nWindows-E<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Launch application on Quick Launch bar<\/td>\nWindows-1 to Windows-0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cycle through task bar<\/td>\nWindows-T – space selects<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

* Most work on Windows XP\/Server 2003 and above, though some were added in Vista. So your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n

FireFox<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Open a new tab<\/td>\nCTRL-T<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Close current tab<\/td>\nCTRL-F4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Switch tabs<\/td>\nCTRL-TAB (forward)
CTRL-SHIFT-TAB (backward)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Re-open last closed tab<\/td>\nCTRL-SHIFT-T<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Go to search box<\/td>\nCTRL-K<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Go to address bar<\/td>\nCTRL-L<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Find<\/td>\nCTRL-F<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Go back<\/td>\nALT-left arrow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Go forward<\/td>\nALT-right arrow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Visual Studio\/ReSharper<\/h3>\n

This deserves a separate post and\/or screencast, which I’ll get to eventually. For now, download the ReSharper keymap from here<\/a> (ReSharper 2.x\/IDEA scheme). Personally I wouldn’t bother with the “Visual Studio scheme” for ReSharper. Every ReSharper Jedi I know uses the IDEA scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know a few friends who are absolute keyboard junkies. They won’t even touch the mouse unless absolutely necessary. I tend to be more pragmatic about my keyboard use. If I use an application a lot, I learn the keyboard shortcuts. Otherwise I just reach for the mouse. That said, here are some keyboard shortcuts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}