{"id":31,"date":"2012-08-26T22:02:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T21:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tempdetheux.food.blog\/2012\/08\/26\/add-the-backspace-key-shortcut-back-to-safari-6\/"},"modified":"2019-07-19T17:02:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T15:02:05","slug":"add-the-backspace-key-shortcut-back-to-safari-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/add-the-backspace-key-shortcut-back-to-safari-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Add the backspace key shortcut back to Safari 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>Since I switched to Mountain Lion, I haven\u2019t had a lot of issues. But some really minor differences between this new OS X version and Lion made me go crazy. A bit.<\/p>\n<p>I rely a lot on keyboard shortcuts to enhance my workflow in Apps. And for a reason I still don\u2019t understand, Apple removed the backspace keyboard shortcut to go back to the previously visited page. This shortcut works on any browser &amp; on any OS so I don\u2019t get why we couldn\u2019t use that handy shortcut anymore. They were probably too busy focusing on the trial vs. Samsung&nbsp;\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I fiddled around the Safari&nbsp;.plist file with XCode and saw that there was still a mention of a \u201cBack\u201d key. As I looked more in depth, I discovered that some shortcuts were actually simply containing the shortcut keys in unicode mode. So, without any faith, I tried to tie the \u201cBack\u201d command to the backspace key, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fileformat.info\/info\/unicode\/char\/232b\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in unicode<\/a>. And it worked!&nbsp;\ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>The solution<br \/>\nSimply copy and paste this code into terminal, no sudo required. Relaunch Safari and you will be able to use backspace to go to the previous page again.<\/p>\n<pre>defaults write com.apple.Safari NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add Back \"U232b\"<\/pre>\n<p>I think Apple is trying to encourage use to use the swipe movements on the trackpad, which I like and use while on the go. The problem is that at the office and at home I use my laptop with an external display and keyboard so this is useless\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I switched to Mountain Lion, I haven\u2019t had a lot of issues. But some really minor differences between this new OS X version and Lion made me go crazy. A bit. I rely a lot on keyboard shortcuts to enhance my workflow in Apps. And for a reason I still don\u2019t understand, Apple removed&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"readmore-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/add-the-backspace-key-shortcut-back-to-safari-6\/\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,13,63,33,41,57],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerdy-stuff","tag-apple","tag-apps","tag-archive","tag-hint","tag-mac","tag-zendesk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}