on Big Sur this also hovers an arrow next to the menu item, this is what it looks like:
Which is why for German keyboards, Apple made ⇧⌘/ the Search shortcut.
Which also makes no sense. Because surprise, we can’t use / either without pressing Shift at the same time.
Oh, the burden of an ÄÖÜ-bearing language.
Not arguing, but I think I don't understand the point. Also on a QWERTY-keyboard, ? requires ⇧. In fact, ⌘⇧/ and ⌘⇧? not only have the same effect, but are literally just different ways of describing exactly the same keypress. If you need ⇧ to access a key, but ⇧ is already included in the combination, then what's the problem?
Example: Apple chose ⌘⇧/ to focus the help search box but didn’t consider that ⌘/ already toggles line comments in many editors and IDEs.
Some app teams at Apple even double-assign ⌘(key), creating a conflict with a system-wide (localized) shortcut.
Example: On German macOS, ⌘< means Next window but a few years ago, Xcode introduced the same ⌘< shortcut for stuff like Edit Scheme, a menu command the average developer probably uses at most a few dozen times a year. Next window though is super important.
Fortunately, it’s all customizable on the user side so I’m not too angry at Apple. I just have a little weltschmerz about my language having so many umlauts, forcing keyboard designers to demote so many characters to ⇧.
(Not just menu items, but any series of actions involving mouse clicks and keystrokes.)
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