Mac keyboard shortcuts?

[Eleanor Olds Batchelder]

When I wrote that, I was struggling with an import — the screen that the imported transactions were displayed on would accept a 'cut' (cmd x), but not a 'paste' (cmd v) — I had to do cmd-e (edit) then return key to get the highlighted command on the edit menu (paste).  However, I'm having so many other troubles with import that I'm just going to reenter the transactions from my old system — it will be easier than correcting so many errors (duplicate reversing, unmatched transactions, etc.).  However, on the register screens the cut/paste key commands seem to work as expected.  (However, no undo, I guess…)

Another weird thing — if I type a wrong character when specifying an account, a dialog box pops up asking me if I want to add it new (yes or no).  I have to click no three times before it goes away for good!  Is that expected?

Thanks for your patience,
Eleanor


On 2011-04-25, at 6:46 PM, John Ralls wrote:

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> On Apr 25, 2011, at 2:00 PM, Eleanor Olds Batchelder wrote:
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>> What is the story on Mac keyboard shortcuts?  Things don't seem to work as advertised, and the manual keeps referring to the Alt key, which I don't have one of!  (As you can see, I'm struggling with a steep learning curve here…)
> 
> Menu accelerators have control mapped to command. You do have an alt key (it's called the option key on a Mac, but if you look closely at the keyboard it says "alt" in tiny print on the upper left corner), but on Mac's it's reserved for international characters.
> 
> Other shortcuts are not changed, and if there are some <alt> ones, they won't work.
> 
> What in particular are you having trouble with?
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>