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MC-2292

OS X: Ctrl modifier key instead of Cmd

On OS X, when you want to paste text in the game (e.g: the seed field, a server IP, the multiplayer chat... any text field), you have to use the shortcut Ctrl-V.
It's perfectly logical on Windows or Linux, but on OS X, all the programs use the Cmd-V shortcut, so it's not intuitive at all.

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Pixelgraph

I found this pretty annoying, I had to get used to it, though it's odd to copy a seed CMD-C then go CTRL-V in Minecraft.

Cronos Dage

No such thing as "Mac OS X" Mountain Lion. It's "OS X." I'd advise modifying your ticket to reflect this.

Edit: Thanks for fixing this.

James Clarke

This isn't the only issue - the following all exist (some aren't OS X specific):

The following system-wide OS X text-editing shortcuts do not exist:

  • Cmd+A/C/V/X - should be instead of Ctrl+A/C/V/X

  • Option/Alt+Left/Right - should move back and forth by word (like Ctrl on Windows)

  • Cmd+Left/Right - should be the equivalent of Home/End

  • (extension of above) Cmd+Shift+Left/End - should select everything before/after the cursor

  • Cmd+Backspace - should delete everything before the cursor

  • Alt+Backspace - should delete the word before the cursor

System-independent issues (not just OS X):

  • Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right - only selects one word

  • Ctrl+Right - should 'hug' the word rather than jumping past the trailing space.

Reasons why the code does what it does:

You include Cmd as a recognised alternative to Ctrl, but a lot of the key combinations you listen out for are detected by their C0 code, which of course will only include the Ctrl character.

Jesper the End

confirmed for 13w18c
I don't see why this isn't fixed yet. It doesn't seem to be so hard to fix.
(correct me if I'm wrong, I do not program java)

Torabi

Hmm... According to Grum:

1) Anything that use CTRL before now exclusively uses CMD on osx. (Meaning the default stack-drop-keybinding will quit your game 😃)

This should have been fixed with 1.6.2. Guess he missed something.

10 more comments
John Scott

Depends. Does that happen when you use other programs? If yes, then it's normal. If not, file a bug on this Minecraft bug tracker.

a

No. Standard cut/copy behavior on OS X requires an explicit selection to update the clipboard.
I'll create the report: MC-68497

Baptiste Candellier

I'm glad my bug report got fixed, even though I don't use a Mac anymore... 😛 Thanks, Grum!

kumasasa

According to MC-78815 this was not fixed for pasting in signs.

a

Ok, well the mod on MC-78815 marked it as an invalid feature request. I'd like to see a Won't Fix or WAI from Mojang though...
Pasting on signs does not exist in 1.8.7

Baptiste Candellier

Erik Broes

Confirmed

OSX, controls, keyboard, mac, paste, shortcuts

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