It's a good idea to learn some keyboard shortcuts for use with various applications to speed up your workflow. Here are some examples. If you want to add any, email Pippin <pippin.barr@concordia.ca> and he'll update this file.
These shortcuts are written for Mac OS X. Generally speaking, if you replace Command with Control and Option with Alt on Windows they will still work.
- ⌘space (Command-Space) - Launches Spotlight which you can then use to search for files and applications on the computer
- ⌘C (Command-C) and ⌘V (Command-V) - Copy and paste, works on files and folders
- ⌘⇧N (Command-Shift-N) - Creates a new folder in the currently active folder
- ⌘C (Command-C), ⌘X (Command-X), ⌘V (Command-V) - Copy, cut, and paste selected text
- ⌘/ (Command-/) - Comments out the selected line or lines (if you are using Atom for programming/HTML/CSS)
- ^⇧M (Control-Shift-M) - Display Markdown preview when editing a Markdown file
- ⌘R (Command-R) - Reload the current page (useful for restarting your program)
- ⌘⇧R (Command-Shift-R) - Reload the current page and ignore any cached versions (useful if your page is behaving as though it hasn't been updated)
- ⌘⌥J (Command-Option-J) - Bring up the JavaScript Console