Mythical Shortcut in Cocoa Applications
Hi,
Recently, I have discovered a quite strange shortcut ? first in Safari then in any cocoa apps. If you select some text in browser url bar and press Cntrl+L then the text will be shortly highlighted. It looks very similar to the keyword highlighting during search trough web pages. Take a look on short screencast and you will get what I mean ? on my blog (in russian) or youtube.
Such yellow few seconds highlighting happens also in Google search bar of Safari, in TextEdit and so on. Interesting is that the Control+L shortcut disapear in Safari 4.0 Preview.
I have no idea what is the reason to use this shortcut. Is it programmers error? Easter egg?
P.S. Sorry for my poor English
Recently, I have discovered a quite strange shortcut ? first in Safari then in any cocoa apps. If you select some text in browser url bar and press Cntrl+L then the text will be shortly highlighted. It looks very similar to the keyword highlighting during search trough web pages. Take a look on short screencast and you will get what I mean ? on my blog (in russian) or youtube.
Such yellow few seconds highlighting happens also in Google search bar of Safari, in TextEdit and so on. Interesting is that the Control+L shortcut disapear in Safari 4.0 Preview.
I have no idea what is the reason to use this shortcut. Is it programmers error? Easter egg?
P.S. Sorry for my poor English
Comments
Spammy? Possibly
Here's the full list:
Ctrl+A go to start of line
Ctrl+E go to end of line
Crtl+P go to previous line
Ctrl+N go to next line
Ctrl+B go back one character
Ctrl+F go forward one character
Ctrl+D delete the character to the right
Ctrl+H delete the character to the left
Ctrl+K delete whole line
Ctrl+V scroll down
Ctrl+L scroll to center the current line
Ctrl+O insert line break
Ctrl+T swaps letters
Thank you, yama, for your answer. But why it highlights the text? For what? Btw, for me control+L doesn't scroll to center the line in TextEdit.