The delete line command in VS Code is so convenient.

Example mapping mouse buttons to back/forward.

Karabiner has a great site with community keybindings.

Using this for something better is a great idea. It is strange how caps lock is such a big key that you basically never use.

Really interesting project which turns the caps lock key into a modifier.

Example of shortcut based on application condition.

List of Karabiner keycodes lists out all of the possible ‘inputs’ into your custom karabiner mappings.

Bundle identifiers can be specified as a regex.If you are adding a new rule entry to a complex modification you already have, you’ll need to explicitly add it in the karabiner complex modifications UI.The benefit of this approach is this works across any applications, and you apply filters (only activate when a specific application is active, etc) to keyboard shortcuts. You can use karabiner to convert any mouse/keyboard input into other mouse/keyboard input.Here’s the best description and examples of how this magical keybinding dict works.It looks like macOS has a emacs-like kill-ring that is managed separately from the system clipboard.You don’t need to add the shift modifier ( $) to a keybinding if shift is modifying a letter that can be uppercased.Any user defined keybindings override system-level keybindings.There was some strange output encoding issues that caused many of the bindings to not display properly.You can read it using plist buddy plistbuddy -c 'print' /System/Library/Frameworks/amework/Resources/StandardKeyBinding.dict However, this file is not a plain text dict. All of the standard macOS keybindings are located /System/Library/Frameworks/amework/Resources/StandardKeyBinding.dict.Holding cntrl while executing mission_control (which I have bound to my middle button) will execute 'application windows' and holding cmd executes show desktop. In Karabiner there is not a application_windows command, but there is a mission_control.You can combine these commands and tie them to keyboard shortcuts, but they only work in apps that use the native cocoa text system (not Chrome, for example!). There are a set of special commands that control the native cocoa text system.Here are some notes about what I learned about this hidden macOS feature: Here are my notes! Most of the resulting code is here. I ended up digging into Karabiner and the native macOS keybindings. Additionally, ever since I discovered back/forward for code navigation in VS Code I wanted to bind my mouse keys to these shortcuts. I’ve always wanted some of the fancy keybindings I have in VS Code across my entire macOS experience.

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