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mason.kramer

macrumors 6502
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1. The number one thing that is slowing me down in OS X is having to manually click on on dialogue boxes to select the option I want. Suppose I want to quit a program and I have an unsaved document. A dialogue box pops up asking me if I want to save changes, quit without saving, or cancel. I've tried everything I can think of and no keyboard command I've tried gives me a way to tab through the options. Obviously, if I press enter, the default option is selected, but I frequently find that the default is not what I want. Is there a way to do this natively, and if not, is there a way to add that functionality?

2. In windows, ctrl-lft and control-right moves to the next whitespace on the line. I use this hotkey about 500 times an hour in windows, but it doesn't work in mac. Is there an analogous hotkey? (OOPS! nevermind, I just found it - it's opt-arrow on here. Phew...thank goodness).

3. I want to set the finder to display my folders as a list by default. I took a guess and discovered that cmd-, gives me the prefs for finder. However there is no option to "always display new windows as a list." Is there to have my finder always default to list-view? I hate tiles.

Thanks for your time...I might post back with more hotkey questions 🙂
 
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