Keyboard Enhancements for Mac

Add custom key mappings and shortcuts to do things faster and easier in Mac.

Read A Modern Space Cadet from Steve Losh for enlightenment.

Mappings

• Fn to Hyper when in combination with a letter/number/symbol.
• Option_R to Fn.
• Shift_R to ESC when typed only.
• Option + h/j/k/l to left/down/up/right.

Ubiquitous Vim Bindings for Normal Mode

• Type Command_R to toggle Vim bindings for normal mode.
• Alternatively, type ESC to turn off normal mode.

Mappings can be used in normal mode:

Shortcuts

Trackpad

Press Fn, and single tap different area of trackpad to move windows around.

Tab Mode

Press Tab + h/l to switch app like Command + Shift + Tab or Command + Tab.

In Finder

• F2 to rename
• Forward Delete to Command_L + Delete
• Command + N to create new folder

Switch/Open Apps

Press Fn + letter to open the app or switch to it.

• Fn + D: Show Desktop
• Fn + V: MacVim
• Fn + F: Firefox Aurora
• Fn + C: Chrome
• Fn + G: GitHub
• Fn + W: Wunderlist
• Fn + E: Calendar
• Fn + I: iTerm

Tools (free)

• KeyRemap4MacBook
• BetterTouchTool

Setup

KeyRemap4MacBook

Import settings from Terminal:

$ sh ./kr4mb_settings.sh

To Export your Setting:

$ /Applications/KeyRemap4MacBook.app/Contents/Applications/KeyRemap4MacBook_cli.app/Contents/MacOS/KeyRemap4MacBook_cli export > ./kr4mb_settings.sh

BetterTouchTool

Import BetterTouchTool.settings in BetterTouchTool.