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?Opt
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
.esc
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.