I’ve long used the Keyboard pane in System Preferences to assign shortcuts for the items in “From” pop-up menu in Mail’s “New Message” window. This lets me send the message from a different account just by pressing a key.<\/p>\r\n
(Interestingly, this same technique works for the standard “Save as PDF…<\/a>” menu item when printing, but not for user-supplied PDF services<\/a>.)<\/p>\r\n Mac OS X 10.7 Lion introduced a bug<\/a> whereby editing a keyboard shortcut for any<\/em> application would render the Mail keyboard shortcuts inoperable. If you examine Mail’s preferences file, you can see that a non-printable character is inserted on either side of the menu item title. Preferences for other applications are unaffected; I think some part of the OS doesn’t like that the titles of these menu items contain angle brackets.<\/p>\r\n Before editing a shortcut in System Preferences, you can use this Terminal command to save your Mail keyboard shortcuts:<\/p>\r\n Copy everything in curly braces, which for me is:<\/p>\r\n To restore the Mail keyboard shortcuts, type:<\/p>\r\n Then paste, enter the closing Update (2012-07-31): This bug seems to be fixed in Mountain Lion.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve long used the Keyboard pane in System Preferences to assign shortcuts for the items in “From” pop-up menu in Mail’s “New Message” window. This lets me send the message from a different account just by pressing a key. (Interestingly, this same technique works for the standard “Save as PDF…” menu item when printing, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[126,131,150,14,649,125,30,211],"class_list":["post-4842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-applemail","tag-bug","tag-email","tag-emailclient","tag-esoteric-preferences","tag-keyboardshortcuts","tag-mac","tag-lion"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4842"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8078,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842\/revisions\/8078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}defaults read com.apple.mail NSUserKeyEquivalents<\/pre>\r\n
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