A smarter Dictionary shortcut
Thursday, November 10th, 2005I’ve blogged before about using the
A neat tip on macOSXHints combines the two.
Not wanting to send an email by mistake when trying to check a word in the Dictionary (like this poor guy), the poster decided to change the
What’s extra clever about this, though, is that the new shortcut becomes something more than the old one was.
The poster discovered that the new shortcut acts as a kind of “toggle switch”. After pressing F7 he could move the mouse over as many words as he liked and get a definition for each. When he was finished, hitting F7 again toggled the “Dictionary mode” off again.
Excellent tip. Never has it been so easy to understand those emails from friends who take pride in being obscure!
(This will work in other apps too.)
Tags: Apple Mail, Dictionary, keyboard shortcut, shortcuts