Oh, I wasn't denying the issue exists, I was just arguing that all OS are bad at this, and Mac is no exception
I'm not listing shortcuts on Windows, I've read that it's impossible due to the way shortcuts are registered, you can at most find a list of shortcuts that aren't in use by any app by trying to set/unset them. And anyway the OS (nor the MS apps like Office) isn't even good enough to list its own shortcuts
The solution to this problem is to ignore the app and bind to whatever is best for you, AHK overrides apps, so native shortcuts won't interfere.
And then if an app has a shortcut that you want to use, you could also rebind it natively within the app or if the app is dumb, just do it in AHK to `if app {my_key_combo::app_key_combo}`
Then re. search: in AHK I add comments to keybinds that allow me to easier find a shortcut across all ahk scripts in a text editor (but this isn't a perfect system either, I don't know of a perfect updated one)
> would be nice if there was a convention that some modifier sequence was reserved for user and should not be used by applications.
That's way too limiting, besides there isn't even a much simpler convention: every app should allow listing and changing every single keybind it uses
I'm not listing shortcuts on Windows, I've read that it's impossible due to the way shortcuts are registered, you can at most find a list of shortcuts that aren't in use by any app by trying to set/unset them. And anyway the OS (nor the MS apps like Office) isn't even good enough to list its own shortcuts
The solution to this problem is to ignore the app and bind to whatever is best for you, AHK overrides apps, so native shortcuts won't interfere. And then if an app has a shortcut that you want to use, you could also rebind it natively within the app or if the app is dumb, just do it in AHK to `if app {my_key_combo::app_key_combo}`
Then re. search: in AHK I add comments to keybinds that allow me to easier find a shortcut across all ahk scripts in a text editor (but this isn't a perfect system either, I don't know of a perfect updated one)
> would be nice if there was a convention that some modifier sequence was reserved for user and should not be used by applications.
That's way too limiting, besides there isn't even a much simpler convention: every app should allow listing and changing every single keybind it uses