Accidentally Discovering Shortcuts
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I some times zoom/magnify my Outlook window. Maybe mouse wheel or something on the ten key? I wish I knew the reverse. I always have to dig through the ribbons to undo it.
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I'm a fan of keyboard shortcuts and use them regularly with VS and VS code. One of them is shift+ctrl+d for Ghostdoc to add comments to a method. Today I accidentally pressed shift+ctrl+t and discovered the find file feature :) I should probably just have a look at the shortcut cheatsheet :-O I also recall activating a f.lux color scheme that turned my display a strange hue of pink iirc. That was a fun one to track down, since I didn't know that I caused it by pressing some hotkey combination. Have you found any cool / handy shortcuts by accident?
Sometimes the discoveries are found the hard way. I use (not by choice) WebStorm as my IDE. To push the code to the host, the shortcut is U. I found out after my changes did not seem to change anything and after I uploaded again, it complained that some variable was was undefined. It seems that U toggles the case of word at the cursor between upper & lower.
Nothing succeeds like a budgie without teeth.
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no, But my cat seems to find them all the time.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
Has anyone ever tried to invent a cat-shield for a laptop keyboard? And maybe an optional project-screen-onto-cat feature that would help when he's blocking that?
Dean Kamen, Elon Musk, Tony Stark - did they think of anything so handy? -
I some times zoom/magnify my Outlook window. Maybe mouse wheel or something on the ten key? I wish I knew the reverse. I always have to dig through the ribbons to undo it.
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I'm a fan of keyboard shortcuts and use them regularly with VS and VS code. One of them is shift+ctrl+d for Ghostdoc to add comments to a method. Today I accidentally pressed shift+ctrl+t and discovered the find file feature :) I should probably just have a look at the shortcut cheatsheet :-O I also recall activating a f.lux color scheme that turned my display a strange hue of pink iirc. That was a fun one to track down, since I didn't know that I caused it by pressing some hotkey combination. Have you found any cool / handy shortcuts by accident?
Many moons ago I was working at the command prompt. My keyboard fell into a drawer and the edge of the desk hit F7. What appeared was a selectable list of my prior commands. That ended up being pretty handy. One day, while motor touring in France, we took a wrong turn. It cut a few km off the route to our destination and we got to see some interesting neighborhoods.
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Visual Studio 2008 has a bug that undocks all of your windows. To recover you must carefully start up a second instance of VS2008, exit the broken one, and then exit the 2nd. This forces the original window layout to get saved over the borked one. And yes, my choice of present tense for the preceding paragraph was not an accident :suss:...
Software Zen:
delete this;Nice to see someone else still using VS2008.
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Has anyone ever tried to invent a cat-shield for a laptop keyboard? And maybe an optional project-screen-onto-cat feature that would help when he's blocking that?
Dean Kamen, Elon Musk, Tony Stark - did they think of anything so handy? -
I'm a fan of keyboard shortcuts and use them regularly with VS and VS code. One of them is shift+ctrl+d for Ghostdoc to add comments to a method. Today I accidentally pressed shift+ctrl+t and discovered the find file feature :) I should probably just have a look at the shortcut cheatsheet :-O I also recall activating a f.lux color scheme that turned my display a strange hue of pink iirc. That was a fun one to track down, since I didn't know that I caused it by pressing some hotkey combination. Have you found any cool / handy shortcuts by accident?
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I accidentally discovered that F11 in Chrome switches it to full screen. And only F11 will switch it back out of full screen. ESC doesn't do it!
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I'm a fan of keyboard shortcuts and use them regularly with VS and VS code. One of them is shift+ctrl+d for Ghostdoc to add comments to a method. Today I accidentally pressed shift+ctrl+t and discovered the find file feature :) I should probably just have a look at the shortcut cheatsheet :-O I also recall activating a f.lux color scheme that turned my display a strange hue of pink iirc. That was a fun one to track down, since I didn't know that I caused it by pressing some hotkey combination. Have you found any cool / handy shortcuts by accident?
Not sure we are limited to VS Shortcuts? I just installed Firefox and do not want to search from the address bar. So I discovered that if I change the home page view to this URL DuckDuckGo — Privacy, simplified.[^] I get what I want but the Pocket Shortcuts are removed OK So I created a Bookmark named it Firefox Pocket and gave it his URL about:home. Added the letter "H" to the keyword field. Now just enter H in the address bar and press ENTER and presto magic my Pocket shortcuts show up. As for VS my favorite is F9 and F7
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Grandma finds this one all the time. Half my phone calls with her include the phrase "F11".
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I'm a fan of keyboard shortcuts and use them regularly with VS and VS code. One of them is shift+ctrl+d for Ghostdoc to add comments to a method. Today I accidentally pressed shift+ctrl+t and discovered the find file feature :) I should probably just have a look at the shortcut cheatsheet :-O I also recall activating a f.lux color scheme that turned my display a strange hue of pink iirc. That was a fun one to track down, since I didn't know that I caused it by pressing some hotkey combination. Have you found any cool / handy shortcuts by accident?
SQL server management studio, SSMS, if you want selected text upper case, ctrl + shift + U
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Isn't that a standard key for full screen? Firefox, Vivaldi, VLC, Featherpad, MPC-HC and many others use it.
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I'm a fan of keyboard shortcuts and use them regularly with VS and VS code. One of them is shift+ctrl+d for Ghostdoc to add comments to a method. Today I accidentally pressed shift+ctrl+t and discovered the find file feature :) I should probably just have a look at the shortcut cheatsheet :-O I also recall activating a f.lux color scheme that turned my display a strange hue of pink iirc. That was a fun one to track down, since I didn't know that I caused it by pressing some hotkey combination. Have you found any cool / handy shortcuts by accident?
My keyboard has some shortcut that swaps ASDF for the Arrow keys and vice versa. In-game I hit it often enough to screw up my match and infrequent enough that I can't remember how to undo it! ARGGGG, disable shortcuts by default ppl!!! Let advanced users find them on their own.
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I'm a fan of keyboard shortcuts and use them regularly with VS and VS code. One of them is shift+ctrl+d for Ghostdoc to add comments to a method. Today I accidentally pressed shift+ctrl+t and discovered the find file feature :) I should probably just have a look at the shortcut cheatsheet :-O I also recall activating a f.lux color scheme that turned my display a strange hue of pink iirc. That was a fun one to track down, since I didn't know that I caused it by pressing some hotkey combination. Have you found any cool / handy shortcuts by accident?
My keyboard has some shortcut that swaps ASDF for the Arrow keys and vice versa. In-game I hit it often enough to screw up my match and infrequent enough that I can't remember how to undo it! ARGGGG, disable shortcuts by default ppl!!! Let advanced users find them on their own.
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Yes it is. But she only uses Chrome, so there you go. Being 91 means you already have a lot to remember already.
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I'm a fan of keyboard shortcuts and use them regularly with VS and VS code. One of them is shift+ctrl+d for Ghostdoc to add comments to a method. Today I accidentally pressed shift+ctrl+t and discovered the find file feature :) I should probably just have a look at the shortcut cheatsheet :-O I also recall activating a f.lux color scheme that turned my display a strange hue of pink iirc. That was a fun one to track down, since I didn't know that I caused it by pressing some hotkey combination. Have you found any cool / handy shortcuts by accident?
Undo in region. I use emacs as exclusively as I can. ("Region" is emacs-speak for selection.) C-x C-u is convert to upper case, but I once left out the second C and discovered I could undo changes to just a segment of my file and ignore more recent changes to somewhere else in the file. Now it's on my top 5 reasons to use emacs when someone asks.
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I'm a fan of keyboard shortcuts and use them regularly with VS and VS code. One of them is shift+ctrl+d for Ghostdoc to add comments to a method. Today I accidentally pressed shift+ctrl+t and discovered the find file feature :) I should probably just have a look at the shortcut cheatsheet :-O I also recall activating a f.lux color scheme that turned my display a strange hue of pink iirc. That was a fun one to track down, since I didn't know that I caused it by pressing some hotkey combination. Have you found any cool / handy shortcuts by accident?
And what about the middle mouse button that closes the tabs? It's not a real shortcut, but it's really useful and time-saving. It also works with the Chrome and Edge tabs.
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And what about the middle mouse button that closes the tabs? It's not a real shortcut, but it's really useful and time-saving. It also works with the Chrome and Edge tabs.
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Never stumbled across any cool/handy ones, only ones that I wish I hadn't found. One of the most annoying, because it can easily occur accidentally, is hitting ALT in an Excel spreadsheet.
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