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While that sounds like a great idea...

* How do these shortcuts remain consistent between applications?

* What's a system wide, task-type-wide, and program specific action?

* How do these persist across different versions of OS, application, devices, different ownership (work / home / etc), or otherwise follow the user?

* "X is broken" use the shortcut... wait what did you configure that as?




That may be the other thing. Apps have gotten a lot bigger on average. How many shortcuts are really consistent across applications? A dozen? That might have been half of the shortcuts 20 years ago. Now that’s a quarter and nobody bothered creating bindings for half of the menu entries.

Hell, Outlook gets it wrong and MS used to harp on this loudly. I can’t count how many new folders I’ve created while trying to start an email.




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