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Originally Posted by KevinH
No, In Sigil User's Guide, it explains that in the Mac, the shortcut keys have been remapped. For example, the Ctrl key is mapped to the Apple/Command key. It has been that way since Sigil began over 15 years ago and will not change.
The reason is to make cross-platform shortcuts work. For example Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V on Windows and linux has long been Copy and Paste, but on a Mac that has always been Command+C and Command+V. So the remapping makes all platforms happy for standard shortcuts.
So replace the Ctrl with Command on a Mac. Or just enable the Clips 1 Toolbar and use that instead.
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The Ctrl = Cmd is the one equivalent that I learned early on. I couldn't find the equivalent of Alt so I tried them all and none would work on my Macbook.
But that has turned out
not to be at the root of my problem on the Macbook.
I tried your suggestion of using the Clips 1 Toolbar but found that it was not populated - completely blank. Previously, I had found that in the Clips Editor none of my clips were numbered. I couldn't remember numbering them by hand in Linux, but I tried adding the numbers manually in the Macbook without success in getting the shortcut to work.
I tried the Sigil Users Guide (_20250912 edition) but found nothing relevant to Clip numbers.
Eventually I found the problem. My clips in the Macbook were created by 'Autofill' and they were all situated below the Examples. As soon as I raised them above the examples, the clip numbers magically appeared and Option + Command + 'number' worked as it should.
BTW: the format menu drop down in the Macbook shows Cmd+Space as the way to delete formatting. Sadly, Mac seems to have hijacked this combination to open their 'Spotlight search' bar.
Turning my attention to Windows, where I have never really used the clips, I exported my clips from linux and imported them into Windows Sigil. They do appear above the built-in examples in the Clip Editor, but un-numbered. Restarting Sigil doesn't change anything. Numbering them by manual editing doesn't enable the shortcuts to work. Nor is the clip bar populated.
I guess I've missed something somewhere.