Keyboard Shortcut
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Hi, this is probably more a request for help than a bug report.
In nvalt i use ⌥ESC as my keyboard shortcut (and have done so for a decade so muscle memory is firmly set!)
When i try to set this in nvultra, i get the following error:-
The key combination ⌥⎋ cannot be used
This combination cannot be used because it is already used by a system-wide keyboard shortcut.
If you really want to use this key combination, most shortcuts can be changed in the Keyboard & Mouse panel in System Preferences.
However, checking the system preferences i cannot see any shortcut set for ⌥ESC, and when this is triggered only nvalt launches.
Any suggestions?
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Hmmm... This seems to come from MASShortcut, and digging through I can confirm that it does seem that macOS reports that the option/Escape shortcut is already registered in the system.
When I try using that key in the keyboard viewer, it seems like it is trying to do something else. So maybe it is used for multi-keystroke character input in some way? It might actually be a legitimately blocked combination, which does then beg the question as to why it is not blocked in nvAlt.
You might have to use a different keystroke combination...
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Annoyingly Shortcut Detective quits when I send it ⌥⎋, so I'm unable to help track down what might be blocking this. The only system shortcut that should at all overlap (that I know of) is ⌘⌥⎋ which launches the force quit menu. But I _can_ confirm that MASShortcut does not want to use it...
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Thanks for investigating
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