It's always been possible to remove focus from all selected files in Finder by pressing the ⎋ Escape key. It would appear that this is no longer possible in OS X Mavericks. I navigate the Finder entirely via keyboard and using ⎋ Escape is something I do quite frequently.
I've looked at nearly every preference pane I could think of as well as the contents of com.apple.finder.plist
, com.apple.systempreferences.plist
, and com.apple.universalaccess.plist
, but no luck so far (or I'm just not seeing it).
Any ideas?
Esc
in System Preferences, but perhaps that’s something to dig into? – alexwlchan Nov 10 '13 at 0:21Opt
key, then Select All becomes Deselect All. I assume that’s what you’re looking for, but I can't find an easy way to bind that toEsc
. – alexwlchan Nov 10 '13 at 9:06esc
in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts. I've addedcmd
+esc
as a shortcut for Deselect All, but that's far from ideal. I've now figured out that it is possible to removecmd
from the shortcut by editingcom.apple.finder.plist
. This can be done either by using the XCode plist editor or by usingdefaults write com.apple.finder.plist NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add "Deselect all" -string "\\U238b"
in Terminal.app. – Jerome Dahdah Nov 11 '13 at 22:20