On 10-04-2014, at 8:41 AM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:

>>> Hey, did you happen to know about Command+', Command+Shift+",
>>> Command+(, Command+[, and Command+Shift+{ ?   :-)   They let you do
>>> exactly what I think you're saying.
>> 
>> ... if you use a US English keyboard layout.
> 
> Yes, it works on US English keyboard's.  Are you saying it doesn't on
> non?    How could that be, since non-English surely needs all those
> same symbols too…?

But they’re not often in the same places. So the appropriate way to specify short-cuts would be cmd+( - leave out the shift because on a US kbd you have to shift to get ( but on a Madeupistan kbd you have ( with no shift but { requires shift-alt-meta2-richardstallman-opt to get to it.



tim
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