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An un­be­liev­ably help­ful OS X set­ting

I’ve no idea why I did­n’t learn this un­til re­cently, but this seems to be a cru­cial set­ting for a en­joy­able key­board-cen­tric use of a Mac: Full Keyboard Access.

System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Full Keyboard Access => All Controls
System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Full Keyboard Access => All Controls

After us­ing this, many more OS X UI el­e­ments are nav­i­ga­ble with just the tab key, and no mouse. This Apple sup­port doc de­scribes the key­board short­cuts that it en­ables.

Hooray for less use of the mouse!

Thanks to Matt Gemmell for post­ing a great ar­ti­cle that in­cludes this tip and many more.

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