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arnehuo

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Dec 1, 2010
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When update lion to 11A494a,hot-key ctrl-a is disabled.Is it a bug?My macbook pro is 13-inch, Mid 2010.
guys,Have you happened?
 

MacManiac76

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Apr 21, 2007
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What is Control-A supposed to do? I know Command-A is a select all command, but have never used Control-A for anything ever.
 

nephilim7

macrumors regular
Jun 13, 2008
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well... control A has no generic use...

unless you use emacs =/ or screen.... or.. even going to the beginning of a line in shell.

annoying.

at least they exposed the control up arrow binding so you can tell it to stop launching mission control. but no ctrl-a = suck. It's being blocked somewhere high up because it isn't being passed to vm's either.
 

itickings

macrumors 6502a
Apr 14, 2007
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What? Are you kidding me? CTRL-A removed? :eek:

I use CTRL-A / CTRL-E all the time, for text fields, text boxes and other stuff, in Safari, Firefox, Pages, Terminal, etc, and so on. I realize how often I use it when I use some odd applications like Word when I annoyed that it doesn't work.

Hopefully a bug that'll get fixed.
 

arnehuo

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Dec 1, 2010
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ctrl-a is good on a new installation mac lion DP4 11A480e.After I updated to 11A494a,it's wrong.:(
 

CyBeRino

macrumors 6502a
Jun 18, 2011
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what does ctrl+a do???

It moves to the beginning of the line in anything that supports emacs key bindings (which Cocoa does.)

Anyway. Ctrl-a being probably the key combo that I use most of anything ever, I set out to figure out what was causing this the moment I ran into the problem.

It is indeed being caught somewhere very high up as it just did not register anywhere, except on another computer through Teleport. That was literally the only place it still worked.

You can fix this problem by deleting the following plist file, which will reset all your keyboard shortcuts: com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist in ~/Library/Preferences, and then logging out and back in again.
 

nephilim7

macrumors regular
Jun 13, 2008
210
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I'm sure it's an oversight... on dp3 control up-arrow was linked to mission control with no way to change it (which messed me up in emacs).. in dp4 it's listed in the keybindings so you can change it... but now control a isn't working.

it will be fixed... but it's a showstopper for an old *nix fart like me. I can't even use control a or e inside of virtual machines running in dp4.. annoying

edit: that above fix worked, thank you

edit: this is very odd... the above fix also seems to have fixed safari not scrolling correctly.. this was literally the first thing I did on a fresh install + software update.
 
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timcharper

macrumors newbie
Aug 26, 2008
7
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Worked for me to

Code:
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist

^^^ Worked for me too, thank you!
 

EMAILBEN145

macrumors newbie
Jun 16, 2011
7
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rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist

thanks so much for this fix! ctrl+a was my most important keystroke!!!!
 
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