Bug 499197 - MacOS: Text editing keyboard shortcuts don't match other MacOS apps
Summary: MacOS: Text editing keyboard shortcuts don't match other MacOS apps
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kate
Classification: Applications
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: unspecified macOS
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWrite Developers
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Reported: 2025-01-27 14:07 UTC by Sebastian Philipp
Modified: 2025-01-27 15:10 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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comparison of keyboard shortcuts under MacOS (58.71 KB, image/png)
2025-01-27 14:07 UTC, Sebastian Philipp
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my new config file (11.09 KB, text/plain)
2025-01-27 14:55 UTC, Sebastian Philipp
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Description Sebastian Philipp 2025-01-27 14:07:38 UTC
Created attachment 177714 [details]
comparison of keyboard shortcuts under MacOS

SUMMARY

I moved from Linux to MacOS (not by choice) and even after 1 month, I still cannot build ANY muscle memory for basic text editing at all. While trying to understand why, I found out that Kate is using different keyboard shortcuts than other MacOS native apps. See attached image. 

I'd like to ask you to mach Kate's keyboard shortcuts to match those of other Mac apps. 

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Kate: 25.03.70
KDE Frameworks: 6.9.0
Qt: Using 6.8.0 and built against 6.8.0
macOS Sequoia (15.1)
Build ABI: arm64-little_endian-lp64
Kernel: darwin 24.1.0
Comment 1 Waqar Ahmed 2025-01-27 14:38:34 UTC
A lot of this was fixed by https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kconfig/-/merge_requests/344 (KDE Frameworks 6.10)

Can you try to use latest nightly(https://kate-editor.org/get-it/)? Though, I am not sure if the latest nightly uses KF 6.10 or not. You can confirm by checking the about dialog.
Comment 2 Sebastian Philipp 2025-01-27 14:55:52 UTC
Created attachment 177718 [details]
my new config file

Attached a new .shortcuts file that is more aligned with other mac apps.
Comment 3 Sebastian Philipp 2025-01-27 15:05:39 UTC
(In reply to Waqar Ahmed from comment #1)
> A lot of this was fixed by
> https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kconfig/-/merge_requests/344 (KDE
> Frameworks 6.10)

Awesome! In case you fixed also "select left/right word" and "select till beginning/end of line",  then feel free to close this issue directly right now.
Comment 4 Waqar Ahmed 2025-01-27 15:10:56 UTC
Yes, those are fixed. Along with a few others like Fullscreen, moving to end/start of document, deleting words etc. 

Moving lines up/down has changed to Ctrl+Cmd+Up/Down (for mac). On Windows, linux its Ctrl+Shift+up/down