Handy BBEdit Tip: Hold Command to see Keyboard Shortcut

Every once in a whole I stumble across an aspect of the excellent BBEdit text editor for Mac OS X that’s new to me. This morning, for example, the following dialog box popped up:

Screen Shot of OS X Dialog Box

I noticed that if held down the “Command” key (the one with the Apple on it on a genuine Apple keyboard), the buttons in the dialog box changed so that their keyboard shortcuts were displayed:

Screen Shot of OS X Dialog Box

As near as I can tell this isn’t standard OS X behaviour. Maybe it should be?

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