Hi all I would like to know if it's possible to add or change a keyboard shortcut to make brackets "[ ]". They are available by doing Alt + Shift + ( but I would like to change it or add one to just do Cmd+ ( for example at least one thing faster because in programming I will win a lot of time (in my opinion) haha. Thanks in advance ciao!
(I'm on MacOS Sierra)
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On latest MacBook Pro it works like this:
⌥ alt+5 :
[⌥ alt+6 :
]⌥ alt+8 :
{⌥ alt+9 :
}
I would love to have them as shortcuts on the touch bar together with the pipe-symbol | (= ⌥ alt+7) and the backslash \ (= ⌥ alt+Shift+7)!
alt + 8 worked for me in MacBook Pro and I believe for programming it's convenient.
1In my case using macbook pro 2019 13-inch azerty
option + shift + ( : [
option + shift + ) : ]I finally found out the easiest way to write square braket, braces and perenthesis by mac type keypad. alt+shift= {, only alt= [ and shift= (
1I have been searching for this myself, and I think there's not one specific answer to this question. I think it depends on the keyboard layout (Language). I have MacBook Pro 2018 with Norwegian keyboard, and I found that the following key combinations works for me:
Option + 8 = [
Option + 9 = ]
Option + Shift + 8 = {
Option + Shift + 9 = }
