Keyboard Navigation in Mac OS X Core Apps.
| Expose, Spaces | |
| tab (Expose) | cycle through Expose’d windows |
| tab (Spaces) | cycle through Spaces |
| number (Spaces) | focus specific space |
| c (Spaces) | collect all windows in space 1 |
| Spotlight | |
| escape | clear search field (press again to close menu) |
| tab | select current search term (equivalent to command-a) |
| command-enter | show selected file in Finder (equivalent to command-R or command-clicking an item) |
| command-up arrow | move to the first result in the previous category |
| command-down arrow | move to the first result in the next category |
| Finder | |
| spacebar | quicklook selected item |
| spacebar | when dragging file onto folder it will spring open without the usual delay |
| option-spacebar | fullscreen quicklook selected item |
| command-option-i | multi-item Inspector for all selected files |
| command-delete | send to trash |
| command-shift-delete | empty trash |
| enter | edit filename, escape cancels, enter accepts the changes |
| Finder – Column View | |
| command-3 | Switch to Column View |
| type anything | Find As You Type within the focused pane (FAYT) |
| tab | Focus contents of selected directory in a new pane |
| right | |
| left | go one pane back |
| Finder – List View | |
| command 2 | switch to list view |
| type anything | Find As You Type (FAYT) |
| tab | cycle through contents of folder, wrapping around |
| shift tab | |
| command-up | change working directory to parent |
| right | open selected folder |
| left (on a file) | jump to parent folder, if that folder is visible |
| left (on folder) | close that folder, if open |
| option-right | open all children of all selected folders |
| option-left | close all selected folders and children |
| open…, save…, browse… | |
| / | go to… dialogue, allowing one to specify full pathnames from root file. w/ Tab Autocomplete |
| command-shift-g | Go to folder… dialogs. w/ Tab Autocomplete |
| tab space | activate disclosure triangle |