Cmd+Shift+A hotkey opens Terminal with "apropos" search instead of the Find Action dialog
Symptoms
-
When
Cmd+Shift+A
hotkey is invoked,Terminal search
opens with "appropos" command instead of theFind Action
dialog: -
macOS has been updated to 10.14.4
Cause
macOS 10.14.4 adds the new default shortcut for the Search man Page Index in Terminal
:
Workarounds
- Disable/change the key binding for the
Search man Page Index in Terminal
feature:- Open Apple menu | System Preferences | Keyboard | Shortcuts | Services
- Disable
Search man Page Index in Terminal
(or change the shortcut)
- Use
Search Everywhere
(Shift+Shift
) shortcut instead ofFind Action
(Cmd+Shift+A
).
See IDEA-209726 for more details. We also plan to detect the conflicts with the system default shortcuts in the future, follow IDEA-210411 for the updates.
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Thank you so much! This was driving me crazy today.
Thank you for sharing this, super frustrating for a bit there! I updated mine to Shift + Command + P to mimick other editors.
Thanks you! This saved my day.
Thanks! I knew it was a system shortcut intercepting it but for the life of me I couldn't find the one that was causing it.
I cannot reproduce this issue.
The shortcut is configured both in MacOS (10.15.3 (19D76)) and IntelliJ (Ultimate 2019.3.3) on my machine. (OOTB).
IntelliJ also complains on startup, that the shortcut conflicts with a MacOS shortcut. ("Find Action..., Move to Another Changelist... shortcuts conflict with macOS system shortcuts. Modify shortcuts or change macOS system settings.)
However, when pressing
Cmd+Shift+A
, the Find Action dialog opens without issues.The warning in IntelliJ must be a false-positive.
Made my day. Thank you so much!
Thanks a lot this saved me from a lot of hassle.
Thank you!
I’ve written a command-line script that can be used to manipulate the settings to disable these shortcuts. It’s available here.
Thanks for the help Elena, webstorm is the best IDE in the planet. You guys are leading the pack. Im a field consultant and no one can keep up with me Im leaving all the competition in the dust.
I could use a way to automatically populate my typescript with jsdoc comments might you know of a way?
Thanks
Brilliant! Thank you.
in intellij settings i see a warning about "shortcuts conflict with macOS system shortcuts" but it should be nice if there is a link to a help document or a help how to disable the macOS shortcuts
Amazing, thanks!
Maybe webstorm can add a tooltip to help users find the issue faster
Thank you! In Ventura 13.0.1, Should operate like this:
Uncheck Search man Page Index in Terminal
(or change the shortcut)Just for completness, here is a solution that is terminal oneliner: (credit: https://gist.github.com/theodson/b4282a3b6e54091db4d52a4c3c10ad25)
@Cyrill FYI I already shared my script (which that is a mirror of) in this thread. Glad you found it useful! 🙂
Thanks very much for this… difficult to find.
Shocked to see how little value all of those Keyboard Shortcuts added – I disabled many in that pane.
Thank you! tiny fix that made my day!