Comments on: Another cool thing your Mac can do

By: paul

paul — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:03:14 +0000

option-escape does it for me as well as F5 in 10.3.9; cool.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 03:37:51 +0000

Those with notebook keyboards have to press [FN] [F5] unless they configured otherwise. [Esc] won’t work on those form items such as search boxes. Pressing [esc] there will delete the line. Press [F5] or [FN F5] to work around it. Love this.

By: R031E5

R031E5 — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:35:43 +0000

Yeap, it should work in any Cocoa made application, hitting the ESC key works for me, but F5 is reserved for the sound :p

By: Markus

Markus — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:25:58 +0000

Hmm, doesn’t work on my PB with either key…

By: Janice

Janice — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:07:26 +0000

i tried on safari’s and found that you will erase with ESC, but otherwise the ESC works fine in other programs like mail.app.

By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:33:35 +0000

On my PowerBook, I have to hit F5 to see the drop-down choices. I don’t think I changed the default configuration on my machine. (Hitting escape takes me out of the drop-down if I don’t want to select something on the list.)